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Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress

February 27, 2018 Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Chairman Jerome H. Powell Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Chairman Hensarling, Ranking Member Waters, and members of the Committee, I am pleased to … Continue reading →

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Ambiguity Of The Dow’s Value: -3.3% GAAP v 10.5% non-GAAP 2017 Earnings

One more example of the ambiguity of stock value  and why earnings are, or can be, the creature of  a company’s CFO.  This is exactly why we prefer top line metrics, such as sales and revenues.  See here for debate … Continue reading →

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Who Is Financing The U.S. Budget Deficit?

In case you missed it in our last post, here’s an interesting chart illustrating how the U.S. budget deficit has been funded since 2010 on a quarterly basis.  The data are annualized. During QE2 and QE3, from Q4 2010 to Q4 … Continue reading →

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Major Stock Index Recovery Percentages

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Stocks And Bonds Now Joined At The Hip

Market Recovery The U.S. stock market rallied Friday on the six bps decline in the 10-year Treasury yield.  The S&P500 has now recovered 63.09 percent of its peak-to-low loss.  We are looking for 2,805 on the S&P500 for a green … Continue reading →

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Week In Review – February 23

Bonds Are The Dog Wagging The Equity Tail A relatively quiet week on a close-to-close basis as not much movement because of no move in the bond.  The bond-stock correlation is extremely high.   The bond and S&P500 have moved in … Continue reading →

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Why Arming Teachers Is A Really Dumb Idea (In Pictures)

Sometimes you need a crayon to illustrate a simple point.  We will use pictures. Where is your market? And one reason why we have this: Looks like the useful idiots in Washington are still taking their dumb-dumb pills.   Queen Victoria

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Sector ETF Performance – February 23

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Global Risk Monitor – February 23

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Jumping On The Comeback Karl Train

Wow!  Seeing more of Karl since our post:  Karl, The Comeback Kid? Bloomberg just retweeted this: Maybe Karl Marx was right https://t.co/BtT0SDPRrY pic.twitter.com/AWMtw4UIYJ — Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) September 26, 2017  

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