Political Futures Markets? Bah, humbug
I keep hearing a lot of jabber about the Politcal Futures markets like Intrade.com and Iowa Political Futures, and how significant the...
WSJ picks up Accelerated Depreciation
The WSJ column “On The Other Hand” makes mention of our little study of Accelerated Depreciation of Capital Spending (ADCS)...
Random Notes
Today’s random items relate back to the prior post: When George Meets John Goodbye, Geneva Oil hangs over foreign policy debate Al...
Confessions of Repentant Hawk
One hardly hears much about Iraq’s impact on the US Economy and Equity markets. Since tonight’s Presidential debate will focus on...
The Bush vs. Kerry Ratio
Martin Pring is a reknowned market technician. His site includes an interesting chart, derived from data via Rasmussen, a reliable...
WSJ & Barrons pick up Oil comments
Some of our earlier comments on Oil got picked up by 2 separate Dow Jones properties: Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal. T....
Global Crude Oil Demand & Gasoline
I’ve been talking about the extent of global demand for Crude outside of the US; This chart demonstrates that perfectly: Global Oil...
New Column up at Real Money (9/28/04)
The latest Street.com column is up: “Bounce Beckons but Long-Term Challenges Remain” In a postbubble, poststimulus economy,...
Oil = $50 a Barrel
Oil broke a psychological barrier last night: $50. As I have been lamenting for quite some time, this is not due to a “terror...
Bull or Bear Market? (hint: Neither)
Two weeks ago, we noted that the SPX and Dow had reached the top of their trading ranges. We suggested at the very least a retracement of...