I’m struggling to find a different way to say the same thing again… Ah, the hell with it. The 10-12 month cycle projection is...
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I look at the political landscape and conclude that we’ve got more of the same in front of us. I think Obama will win, and the Republicans will control the legislative side. For the sake of this discussion, assume that is how it works out.
As of ...
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The bumbling fools in D.C. have done it again. They’ve screwed us all one more time. The low rent morons who are running the show have kicked the can down the road for (get this) two months.
On Saturday the Senate agreed to a bill that would A) ext...
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Oct. 10, 2011, 12:00 a.m. EDT
How Wall Street scammed Mom and Pop — again
Commentary: Investors in this year’s fund IPOs should be protesting
By Brett Arends, MarketWatch
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The question isn’t why some people are “occup...
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June 5, 2011 weekend update
Most of the major world markets in this series lost ground over the past week, with the S&P 500 suffering the largest decline. The Shanghai Composite managed to eke out a fractional gain, which was a welcome change fr...
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May 27, 2011
Note from dshort: I've updated my Treasury yield charts through Friday's close. The 10-year note yield is at 3.07%, nine basis points below headline inflation, as measured by the CPI. This is the lowest 10-year yield since early Decem...
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May 26, 2011
Note from dshort: I've updated my Treasury yield charts through Wednesday's close. The 10-year yield is at 3.13%, three basis points below headline inflation, as measured by the CPI.
At the point QE2 has less than six weeks to compl...
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May 23, 2011
Note from dshort: I've updated my Treasury yield charts through Monday's close. The flight to quality, continued today, although less energetically than the decline in equities might have indicated.
The 10-year yield is now at 3.13...
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May 22, 2011
Note from dshort: I've updated my Treasury yield charts through Friday's close. The general decline in yields over the past six weeks has become more volatile in recent days, most noticeably in the 2-, 3-, and 5-year notes.
Year-ov...
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May 20, 2011
Note from dshort: I've updated my Treasury yield charts through Thursday's close. The general decline in yields over the past six weeks has become more volatile in recent days, most noticeably in the 2-, 3-, and 5-year notes.
At th...
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It’s odd the way the players pay attention to some numbers and not others. There’s no reason why the market should have been surprised by the ConCon. ABC News does a comprehensive consumer confidence survey weekly that always foreshadows the ConCon. Last Tuesday ABC had this to say:
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