Dubble Bubble – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dubble Bubble is a brand of pink-colored bubblegum invented by Walter Diemer, an accountant at Philadelphia based Fleer Chewing Gum Company, in 1928. This is a strange time in the markets. Probably at no time in the…Continue Reading →
Today’s employment number continues the pattern that started last fall, companies continue to ramp up into a demand brick wall. This week’s Outside the Box letter by John Mauldin, see our links section, goes into another aspect of the current…Continue Reading →
Today the ECB followed deeper into the already discredited Greenspan-Bernanke trap, by doubling up on trickle down monetary policies. What the Global economies need is a new structure that starts with a healthy consumer. Tomorrow we will see how this…Continue Reading →
The fact that we believe that we are in day 41 of an elongated top in the stock market does not mean that we want to be Bearish here or think the market is in a bubble or any of…Continue Reading →
It feels like I have been talking forever, at least since the Start 0f QE2, about how the FED has been pursuing a short-term direction of avoiding the pain rather than solving the problem. Usually when I read something that…Continue Reading →
An interesting academic study that digs into the whole inequality issue can be reached here: It’s “Inequality, the Great Recession, and Slow Recovery,” by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari. http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/fazz/cyn-fazz_consinequ_130113.pdf
This week we are adding three new tracking funds for us to the Marketocracy.com site. This first is a $ 1,000,000 tracking fund with a starting NAV of 10.00. We will provide updates on its NAV periodically. The investment formula for this…Continue Reading →
We are in a global world. Something like 50 percent of S&P 500 earnings are offshore. The US has been managed by a FED that has focused on throwing a lot of funny money at domestestic entities, and we have…Continue Reading →
As the new year opens a feeling of optimism seems to encompass the markets. Corporate CEO’s, Financial analysts, and the overall consumer would appear to be feeling very good and in general see 2014 as a positive year, although probably…Continue Reading →
In the econonomic world it is difficult to see what is real and what is not. It is surprising to me that consumers have held up so well the past few months. In any case 2013 was not the year for defensive…Continue Reading →