Tuesday Night Open Thread
Quite a few of you have asked for a forum that is not limited to whatever is floating my boat at the moment — so on the occasional...
Cinco De Mayo Afternoon Reading
Here’s what caught my eye today: • Chairman Bernanke JEC: The economic outlook (Federal Reserve) • The bear is dead, long live...
Nassim Taleb’s Keynote at The Big Picture Conference
Nassim Taleb is going to open The Big Picture Conference: Capitalism After Crisis with his vision of what went wrong with the financial...
Stress Tests & Tim Geithner’s Bar Mitzvah
May 5. 2009 Thursday is stress test day. Not on a treadmill, but it may just as well be so. We are now going to add some...
Earnings Season is Mostly Over — Thankfully
First quarters earnings reports have been awful, but not as awful as expected 5/4/2009
How best to deal with debt?
Ben Bernanke and the FOMC have the fed funds rate currently at zero and with a straight face in the Q&A today, he says he’s...
Charting 1973, 1982 and 2009
Earlier this morning, I asked whether the Market Rally was more reminscent of 1974 or 1982. Courtesy of Ron Geiss of The Chart Store,...
A Foreclosure-Driven Housing Bottom?
Interesting NYT article on the nascent housing “recovery,” focusing on Sacremento, California. Housing prices in the...
FusionIQ Market Statistics
Market internals continued to be stellar with the NYSE registering an up to down volume ratio of 19.2 to 1, while advancers beat...