Been on a posting hiatus, but the subtle absurdity of this story brought me out of my bear hibernation. I only took the part of the story that I found the most ridiculous to highlight so as not to burden you with too much reading: Expanded Hours, Discounts Lure ShoppersSaturday November 25, 5:32 am ET [Continue]

I decided to post this older post, originally written about a month ago, after I learned that at least two people had seen my blog….effectively tripling my viewship (including myself)! So, here I go making sweeping statements, that will be sure to turn off enough of my “audience” so that our numbers can [Continue]

From the NYPost “”Whenever we discuss some of the darker theories of a conspiracy or market manipulation, I seek to discover a market mechanism that can explain the actions. For example, I was quite doubtful of accusations of energy price manipulation — until Bill King identified the changes in the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index [Continue]

With all the other things going on, I’m not sure this got a lot of play in the US — especially on the tube. But, this is a big “story”, with the caveat being that if it is genuine it is *beyond me* why the Chinese would telegraph this move so every trader and institutional and [Continue]

I was writing an email to an old friend today and noted that I sold my home in June of 2004 after “owning” for two years (really the bank owned it, but you get my drift). When I sold, I thought RE was looking “toppy” and booked a 29.09% gain on my sale (not including commissions [Continue]

I was doing some thinking the last couple of days about markets and cycles in general. Although I didn’t go back past the 1920’s, their seems to be an interesting cyclicality in the financial markets evolving….While I can’t be certain, I imagine that the birth/work/death cycle of the average human has a lot to do with [Continue]