Heads Up: It’s NFP Friday!
By Andrew Kassen Welcome to Non-Farm Payroll (NFP; a.k.a. "the monthly unemployment data) Friday! Excluding Central Bank rate decisions and the occasional errant twitter...
Doc Copper: The Personal Physician to King Dollar
By Andrew Kassen Copper is often held up when analysts and commentators are having an "intermarket analysis" moment to bolster whatever argument they're...
Stock Market Report and Economic Update: March 2013
By Greg Naylor March was an eventful month, as the Euro zone dealt with another crisis, this time in Cyprus, and the sequestration went...
February 2013 Stock Market Report and Economic Report
By Greg Naylor February was an eventful month, as the U.S. government struggled unsuccessfully to avoid ‘sequestration,’ and Italy held elections with possible ramifications...
Taking Stock of the Market: Will Dow Jones All Time Highs Change the Equation?
By Andrew Kassen Hugo Chavez is dead. The late Venezuelan President’s body - lately succumbed to the ravages of cancer and a massive heart...
Retired Investors: Does The Department of Homeland Security Know Something We Don’t?
By Jeff Voudrie Recent purchases of billions of rounds of ammunition and 1400 Armored Vehicles for use WITHIN the United States should cause retirees...
January 2013 Stock Market Report and Economic Update
By Greg Naylor
January was an eventful month, as the federal government extended most of the Bush tax cuts and delayed sequestration for two months. In...
December Stock Market Report and Economic Update
By Greg Naylor
December was an uneventful month, as markets anxiously awaited resolution of the ‘fiscal cliff.’ The last week of December saw markets end the...
A Roadmap for Responsible Government Spending
By Max Moore
I recently started reading Santayana’s Curse by Sean Corrigan (of Diapason Commodities). In a few words, the book recounts various monetary pursuits over...
Special Interests and Political MisAdventures of the 21st Century
By Andrew Nyquist
Let’s just come out and state the obvious: it’s nearly impossible to trust that the current political system has the conviction necessary to...
