Tim Price submits:
“A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."-Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in the film ‘Wall Street’.
First, a happy new year to all readers. There was a fitting circularity to 2008, in that a year that began with the largest apparent fraud in banking history (Jérôme [...]

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Paul Kedrosky submits:
Henry Ford said it first and best, “History is more or less bunk.” Is financial history any different? I ask myself that question a lot lately, almost every time I read something where the analysis compares the current “recession” to the average of something in a prior recessionary period.
For starters, there [...]

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Macro Man submits:
Happy new year to all and sundry. It feels good to be back in the saddle (no thanks to the British rail system) after a relaxing couple of weeks off. While Macro Man had every intention of scribbling down a few thoughts while he was off, his break was so relaxing that [...]

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The Stalwart submits:
You can take the analyst out of the brokerage, but you can’t take the brokerage out of the analyst. What’s happening, this Stalwart’s take:

…Obama’s economic plan could include a large dose of tax cuts, perhaps totalling 0bn, rather than simply pumping out purely government expenditures. Which is probably a good thing and [...]

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Paul Singh submits:
Market Notes
The market is overbought. I’ll get back to that, but first let’s take a look at the overall picture. The market, via [[SPY]] and [[SSO]] is putting in a healthy looking bottom pattern. RSI has broke out over the middle area. Price is putting in a constructive looking price pattern. Depending [...]

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