5,000 Jokers
You deserve the peace of mind and comfort that a trustworthy investment advisor brings to you. Unfortunately the investment business is loaded with scammers...
“Don’t Fight the Fed.” All the Time?
Don't fight the Fed is the mantra of many investors today, but don't fight the Fed is a dangerous strategy late in an economic...
Don’t Forget to Turn the Lights Off Before You Leave
Visitors of the Bureau of Economic Analysis homepage today were puzzled to find that before staffers had gone home for the government shutdown, they...
The Energy Evolution
The "Estimated Energy Costs per Million BTUs" chart from Young Research & Publishing gives you a quick comparison of oil, natural gas, coal, and...
Fed President Proves Common Sense Innate
Trying to prove that common sense and good judgment must be innate, Narayana Kocherlakota, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and graduate...
Household Balance Sheets Send Ominous Signal
The Federal Reserve released its quarterly flow of funds data yesterday. One of the key items in the Fed’s quarterly report is the net...
Bernanke’s Jobs Farce
Matthew Klein at Bloomberg is out with an insightful piece on the folly of the Bernanke Fed’s obsession with “the data.” As we’ve pointed...
Should the Market Believe the Fed?
After this week’s about face from the Federal Reserve, market participants couldn't be blamed for not wanting to rely too heavily on smoke signals...
7 Fed Meeting Takeaways for Investors
Below are some thoughts on the implications of the Fed’s dovish surprise at yesterday’s FOMC meeting. The actual economic impact of the Fed’s decision...
Janet Yellen: Investing in the Dark
My thoughts on Janet Yellen from May of this year.
You can be sure there’ll be a price to pay for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben...