Succinct summation of week’s events: 3.30.12
Succinct summation of week’s events: Positives: 1) Euro zone Finance Ministers finalize the temporary combination of the EFSF and...
Where Do Presidential Candidate Stand on Key Issues?
Source: 2012 Presidential Election ProCon.org, March 7, 2012
Dividend Tax Increase Effect on Dividends/Capital Appreciation
> Although markets have already rallied strongly in 2012, the move is still early if current price ratio trends behave similarly to...
Detail View: S&P Cycles (1932-Present)
The following chart should be viewed and compared with the table that follows immediately below the chart. Click to enlarge: ˜˜˜...
5 Books: Causes of the Financial Crisis
> I did a very long but rather interesting review in The Browser’s 5 Books series last week, which is published today. I think...
10 Friday AM Reads
My morning reading material: • Your Financial Adviser Might Be a Lemon (Time) see also Why Wall Street Hates the Lazy Portfolios...
Income growth punk but spending good as savings rate drops
Euro zone Finance Ministers today will likely finalize the combination of the remaining funds in the temporary EFSF with the permanent...
Window Dressing or Something More?
Many people seems to be crediting the market’s resilience to factors such as end of the month/quarter window dressing. I remain...
Prospects for the U.S. Labor Market
Kotok: Back from Paris
Back from Paris March 29, 2012 David R. Kotok We are back from Paris. The head is filled with new info. For the publicly available...