18, Aug 2011
No Volume in the Dow

Volume in the Dow and other indexes has been falling for some time. For over a year I’ve been trying to get top economists to comment or discuss this issue and it remains ignored. Last week CNN finally produced an article on this. Historically there is only one other time…

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11, Aug 2011
Gold, Dollar, S&P comparisons, does it matter?

There is a tendency to compare the merits of investing in Gold, Oil, the Dollar, and the Equity indexes like the S&P, Dow, and more.  There are multiple ways to approach this, and many have simply looked at the charts, long, short, and intermediate.  Many approaches have nothing to do…

5, Aug 2011
Job Report Statistically Irrelevant

The job report today came in at +117,000, creating an unemployment number of 9.1% vs. last reported 9.2%. The error margin is +/- 100,000. This means that the number is statistically irrelevant. Yet our news media and low-level talking heads in the financial industry choose to play it up as…

16, Oct 2010
Business Econ Warning and New Blog Topic

Currently I have been doing market research online to prepare for the launch of a business.  In doing so I have been startled to find that maybe (only a maybe), there is more trouble in Small and Midsize business than we realize.  In the coming weeks I will add blogs…

1, Oct 2008
Finding Market Bottom

Therre are several ways to find the market bottom in a Bear Market: