So Much for the Decoupling . . . .
World markets are plunging in response to fears and expectations that the United States will be (or already is) in a recession that...
Dow Support & Resistance
The S&P 500 is down 11% over the past three weeks. Investors are very concerned. For some perspective on the latest stock market...
3 Day Weekend Linkfest: Review/Preview
Another ugly week in the books. Given the carnage this past week, traders will need 3 full days to recover. The economic consensus has...
12 Investment Principles
Here are a dozen guidelines from Doug Kass. These were developed, according to Doug, regardless of market conditions, as sound investing...
Traffic Spike, part II: Google Trend
One of the comments in the prior post pointed to this Google chart: >Trend history: stock market crash > I’m not sure how...
Traffic Spike?
Is there any contrary indicator component to (bearish) blog traffic? I wonder . . . Note the trend over the past 30 days:> Sitemeter...
Cramer to Write $50k Check to Bolling’s Charity
On Monday, we referenced the bet between Jim Cramer and Eric Bolling. Today’s NYPost runs with the story: "...
Friday Night Jazz: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
This was a rough week (even for the Bears). So for this evening’s FNJ, I am going to focus on a specific album that you should pop...
iBank Writedowns = $100 Billion
Nice schadenfreude porn via the WSJ’s Marketbeat: "The great 2007-2008 parade of writedowns, which was hovering around the...
Retail Heading Towards Biggest Wreck in 17 Years
Just a brief reminder: there have been numerous idiots insisting that the consumer was just fine, and this holiday season was free from...