Mark these words: within about three hours, the “Birther” faction around America will be asking for Osama Bin Laden’s driver’s license. What I’d like to know is how come he was “buried at sea,” when the operation took place at least a thousand miles…
May 2, 2011 monthly update
The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price of the m…
The Federal Reserve and the Federal government are both desperately attempting to “manage perceptions” of the bogus “recovery” and of their own legitimacy. Can “managed perceptions” replace reality?
The Federal Reserve is quite open about the ulti…
“Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/”
A guy who unknowingly Tweeted the entire commando raid, not understanding what he was seeing until the end…
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The ZH comment…
FRANCIS MCCLOSKEY lost his job at the Philadelphia city government’s information hotline in August 2009. Twenty months and more than 1,000 job applications later he is still out of work. He has attended scores of jobs fairs, sought help from job-s…
From The Economist….
PESSIMISM about the United States rarely pays off in the long run. Time and again, when Americans have felt particularly glum, their economy has been on the brink of a revival. Think of Jimmy Carter’s cardigan-clad gloom in…
His projections generally do not conflict with what I am looking for, they seem very reasonable. (I have currently targets of USD$63 soon, retracement to 40’s this summer, and then 130:ish “in a few years”)
My problem with constructing 5 wave impulse …
May 2, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
Where is the market headed? Technical analyst Chris Kimble keeps an eye on high-yield funds for a possible clue.
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Chris comments: No indicator is perfect, yet high yields ha…
I wonder how much political leverage has been gained with ObL’s death, and how it will be used.
Opportunity’s knockin…
In my view it would be a huge waste if team Obama can’t make use of the political capital humorously expressed below.
Alas, if…
May 2, 2011 Monthly Update
About the only certainty in the stock market is that, over the long haul, over performance turns into under performance and vice versa. Is there a pattern to this movement? Let’s apply some simple regression analysis (se…