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 […]
Article, Did You Know, Michael Maehl
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 […]
Wall Street — Where Good News Can Be Seen as Bad
We didn’t have a real great market this past week. Matter of fact, according to the folks at CNBC, this was “the worst weekly performance by the Dow this year.” Though I agree with Mr. […]
Good Reports = Good Markets
This past Thursday, the S&P 500 broke 1,700 for the first time ever. While the number itself has no particular significance, it does represent another easily noted positive mark for the market. On Friday, the […]
