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2012: The Year of Stock Market Symmetry

We were playing around with the charts on Friday night (‘cuz that’s what nerds do with their Friday nights)  and discovered something very interesting about the 2012 stock market.  The results are illustrated in the table and chart below. The … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Edupreneurs and Investing in Education Startups

Global Macro Monitor’s recent post about fast and slow-growing economies looked at national numbers, but did not spend much time focusing on actual industries within localized markets. In the article that follows, contributor Emma Collins takes a deep dive into … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: True Growth Locomotive

Our greatness as a country is that we move on in spite of our government. We thrive, not because of Washington but by overcoming it. We succeed because half of our US economy is privately owned and independently managed. That’s … Continue reading →

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The Greek Resistance – Al Jazeera

Greece – it is where Europe’s civilisation and the very idea of democracy began. But today the country is in crisis; a crisis that may well destroy the dream of a unified Europe. A dream born out of the nightmare … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: Government Intervention

..in complex systems, we should limit government (and other) interventions to important matters: The state should be there for emergency-room surgery, not nanny-style maintenance and overmedication of the patient—and it should get better at the former. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb,  WSJ … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: The True Economist

The bad economist pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great evil to come, while the true economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil. – Frédéric Bastiat,  circa … Continue reading →

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Twitter Goes to War

Wow!  Times they are a-changin’! The Egyptians used Facebook to topple their Pharaoh and now the Israeli’s commence their offensive against Hamas using Twitter.    What would King David think? Slate reports. At 9:29 Eastern this morning, the Israeli Defense Force … Continue reading →

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Beware the Dandruff

As in Head and Shoulders and the long-term technical pattern that is being hammered out in the NYSE index.  We stumbled across this chart over at Bikini Analytics via SocialTrade. We like how they premise the chart. Major Technical Principal: … Continue reading →

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Quote for a New Administration

Time to go bold, Mr. President. “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . Why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? . . . We choose to go to the moon in … Continue reading →

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Apple – Three Time’s the Charm

Apple $15 plus bounce today comes after a triple test of the $623-625 level.  The stock seems to like the triple test of support as it similarly did after the July sell-off.   The stock, in our opinion, still needs some … Continue reading →

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