Great Bearish Quotes
A trader friend sent me this list on December 7, 2004 (Pearl Harbor day). Although I told him that I agreed with nearly all of the...
DJIA Rallies (since 1900)
Interesting historical analysis from Chart of the Day: To answer the question "How does the current stock market rally...
Shuffling Technology for Creativity?
Jerry Del Colliano has an interesting column on the Shuffle feature of MP3 players. (We’ve previously discussed this in "iPod...
Risk is on the Rise
Charlie Minter and Marty Weiner have steadfastly maintained that the reinflation of the past 2 1/2 years has been a classic post bubble...
Nasdaq (and other Bubbles)
Today is the 5th Anniversary of the Nasdaq’s peak — 5048.62 on March 10, 2000 on a closing basis (The Nazz actually hit...
Brain Drain threatened
Over a year ago, we asked if "the balance of scientific power was shifting?" The major concern was that post September 11th, we...
Is the Consumer’s Ability to Keep Spending in Danger?
We (once again) are pleased to present a chart/commentary via Michael Panzner, author of "The New Laws of the Stock Market...
No Goldilocks Economy
Ever wonder how two different kinds of traders can see the same economic news release, yet come up with wholly differing conclusions as...
Chart of the Week: Estimated Labor Slack vs Nominal...
How much better things would have to be to get everyone back into the labor pool? The shape of the “demand curve” for labor tells us...
The Psychology/Sentiment of Oil
I’ll be damned if I can explain exactly how this happened: Last year, when Oil passed $40 on the way to $55, there was a resounding...