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Global Trend Indicators

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Week in Review: Hurricane “I-Lean” Lifts Markets

Short and sweet tonight.   Even turkeys can fly in hurricane “I-Lean The Wrong Way.” Reports that hedge funds, with almost no tolerance for short-term pain, have opened the biggest net short positions since early 2008  has driven a relatively low … Continue reading

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Global Trend Indicators

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Global Trend Indicators

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This Market Sucks – Going Fishin’

Fug this market.  Nothing is working.   You get long and lose money.  You get short and lose money.  You get flat and you lose purchasing power as the dollar melts and commodity staples rise.   These are the kind of markets … Continue reading

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Week in Review: Can the European Center Hold?

What a week.  What a year.  Who would have predicted that U.S. bonds, even in foreign currencies and a sovereign downgrade, would be outperforming the BRIC equity indices and copper by several hundred basis points in mid-August?   Stunning and a … Continue reading

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Global Trend Indicators

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Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!

Wow! What a day.  Incredible moves.   Scared markets.   Capital stampeding like buffalo not knowing where to go.   Great if you’re on the right side of the volatility, but you still needed a neck brace from the whiplash. It’s gonna … Continue reading

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Holders of U.S. Treasury Debt

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Week in Review: “The End of Fake”

We have no idea how the S&P downgrade of the U.S. is going to play out but one thing that does come to mind is the “end of fake.”  The end of fake demand generated by monetary and fiscal stimulus … Continue reading

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