5.5% Unemployment Is Acceptable We Live in Uncertain Times With Apologies to Drunken Sailors What If They Gave a QE Party and No One Came? The Magnitude of the Mess We’re In Atlanta, New York, Orlando, and South America There is an intense debate going on in the first-class cabin of Economics Airlines...
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In This Issue: The Economy, The Economy, The Economy The Poor Numbers Don’t Fit What We See There Is No Shortage Of Cash Confidence Is Everything All Eyes Are On The Fed Inflation Is Baaaaaack Many Excellent Stocks Are Oversold The Bottom Line This Month In our last issue we wrote that stocks were...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Hello Gridlock! 2. Is Gridlock Really Good for the Stock Market? 3. The Fed on Auto-Pilot 4. Doom for the Dollar? Introduction Two major events occurred last week, the effects of which will continue to be felt on into the year 2011 and possibly even longer. The first was the electoral...
Gold prices hit new all time highs late Thursday afternoon. Gold futures for August delivery hit $1,252.50 per ounce during the trading day. The precious metal closed the day at $1248.70. That set a new intraday and a new closing high for gold futures. Investors of all stripes, concerned about the inflationary...
Inflation, The Fisher King and a Solar Stock And to think, investors cheered the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates unchanged. Today, the Producer Price Index, a popular low-ball measure of wholesale inflation, came in twice as hot as expected at 1.2%. That 8.9% rise is the biggest jump since...
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08-19-2008
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Filed under: Canadian Solar, FOMC, Fed, inflation, interest rates, Bernanke, PPI, Larrty Kudlow, Richard Fisher, Rogoff, Freddie Mac, Wilbur Ross, IMF, Paul Volcker
WCI, the Fed and Spring of 2010 Just because your title is “billionaire investor” doesn’t mean you don’t make a mistake from time to time. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn apparently lost $113 million when his home-building company, WCI Communities declared bankruptcy last Monday...
The Hero's Dilemma: Kill the Dragon or Rescue the Princess? Our previous experiences with "stagflation," as the double economic whammy of slowing growth and rising inflation is known, occurred in the '70s and early '80s. Market veterans still recount the Legend of Former Fed Chief...
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08-05-2008
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Filed under: stagflation, Accuride, FOMC, short profits, oil, oil prices, dragon, short, IndyMac, Western Refining, U.S. dollar, Fed, housing market, inflation, interest rates, WCI, bonds, Bernanke, Volcker