Where Your Rebate Check Goes
Our Friday afternoon digression comes via Mark Faber’s Doom, Gloom & Boom report, this has to be the funniest thing I’ve...
Crude Oil = $139+
So much for THAT magazine cover indicator! That has to be the fastest any call OF MINE has been proven wrong — a new...
Temporary Help
Our last word on NFP for the day: One of the best leading indicators for employment is Temp Help. . . And how is that doing? >TEMP...
Unemployment Seasonal Aberration?
In our relentless attempt to get at the Truth, we often spill pixels showing how government data makes things appear rosier than they are...
NFP Report: Unemployment Leaps to 5.5%
chart via BLS > The U.S. lost jobs for the fifth consecutive month, as nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down. For May...
May 2008 NFP Preview
Another month in the books, and another NFP report. Job creation has been flat to negative for the past 5 months or so. According to...
Jim Rogers: Crude Bull Market Has ‘Years to Go’
Jim Rogers on Banks & Commodities: Click for video Excerpt: "Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, said the increase in the...
Deception and Abuse at the Fed
Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum reviews the book Deception and Abuse at the Fed: "Until the U.S. Federal Reserve took the...
Trichet 3, Bernanke 0
Wild day in the pits — DJIA up 213.97, Nasdaq up 46.80 (and over its 200 day moving average!). Crude oil up over $6 intraday,...
Gasparino vs Einhorn, Kohn & Ritholtz
We have a rugby scrum! ProBanks, ProLehman: Dick Fuld (Lehman CEO), Charlie Gasparino (CNBC), Doug Kass (Seabreeze Partners), Thomas...