Where’s Vince Lombardi When You Need Him
I was fortunate enough to have be able to play football for a number of years. I still enjoy watching and commenting on games – especially how the visual acuity of the referees at any […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
Can We Please Look Beyond the Headlines
Not much action in the markets this past week. Market participants watched as politicians in DC postured and jockeyed for more face time in an attempt to look as if they were actually accomplishing something. Watching […]
Doves 1 — Hawks 0
This title has to do with the decision last Wednesday – one almost totally unexpected by the majority of economists, media outlets and traders – by the Fed’s Open Market Committee to do nothing about […]
Looking Through The Wrong End of the Telescope
You know how when you were a kid and you had one of those collapsible telescopes, how cool it was to make things far away seem up close? And then, you’d turn it around and […]
Oil, GDP, QE and September
We ended August with the Dow lower for the month by about 4.5%, the S&P off by about 3.1% and the NASDAQ essentially unchanged. All three remain up nicely for the year. (1) The only […]
