Fewer and fewer investors are participating in the stock market after $395 billion more dollars have left equity mutual funds than have gone in (below) since the summer of 2008 to the present (data source: ICI ).
NY stock exchange volume h ...
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Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
Blog Post - September 23rd, 2011
Amid news that China’s juggernaut economy is slowing and fears that the Eurozoners don’t have the political will to fix what ails them, stock markets worldwide took a dive today. The Dow closed down 738 points—its worst week since October 2008. ...
All terms: Bull Market, China, commodities, Commodities, Currency, Debt, Debt, Eurozone, Gold, stock market
Blog Post - September 15th, 2011
Even just 10 short years ago, the world wasn’t one big market. Global interconnectedness was something we talked about, but it couldn’t be seen everywhere. A market in Frankfurt acted differently from a market in Shanghai, which acted differently from a ...
All terms: Dollar, Federal Reserve, Free Market, global economy, Government, Market, stock market, Trade
Blog Post - August 23rd, 2011
Stock prices rebounded on closing today, the Dow rising 3%, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Eastern Seaboard notwithstanding. The reason for the jump—the mere possibility that the U.S. Federal Reserve, responding to more bad news for the eco ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Free Market, Investing, stock market
Blog Post - August 22nd, 2011
In the midst of Japan’s lost decades, one vocal U.S. Federal Reserve Governor argued that Japan’s central bank had not done enough—that they should be buying stocks, bonds, and real estate outright in order to not just prop those markets up—but to let i ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, Currency, Debt, Federal Reserve, quantitative easing, stock market, Stocks
Blog Post - June 14th, 2011
The Standard & Poors 500 is one of the most watched bellwethers for American stocks. It measures the shares of 500 of the United States’ largest companies, weighted by their individual market capitalization—and therefore, serves as a passable dipsti ...
All terms: Currency, Earnings, Free Market, Monetary Policy, Price, S&P 500, stock market, Value
Blog Post - May 10th, 2011
The last few days have seen many in the commodities complex unnerved. Michael Maloney, most recently on the Keiser Report, has come out and said that he doesn’t care as far as the silver selloff goes—in fact, he hopes it dips further so he can increase ...
All terms: Animal Spirits, commodities, Commodities, Crash, Currency, cycles investing, Market, Security, stock market, trading
Blog Post - October 12th, 2010
The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics went to three academics who have explored the potential inefficiencies in labor markets. Classical economics is based on supply and demand—supply meets demand at a certain price point, meaning sellers and buyers agree t ...
All terms: Economics, Free Market, Government, Government Intervention, Labor Markets, Nobel Prize, stock market, Wages
Feature - August 25th, 2010
We’ve all seen the “Priceless” line of MasterCard ads. Like the one depicting the strapping young man struggling to open the pickle jar, only to have his girlfriend nail it with a single twist of slender wrist. Script: “Gym membership for February, Marc ...
All terms: commodities, Crash, currency, Dollar, Dow, Financial Crisis, Inflation, Price, stock market, Stocks, U.S. economy, Value, Fundamentals
Blog Post - August 19th, 2010
Skyrocketing unemployment! Plummeting stock prices! Miserable consumer confidence! Soaring federal deficit! Double-dip recession! Looming depression! Doom! Gloom! Crash! Bash!
That’s where watching the news, surfing the web or reading the morning pa ...
All terms: Crash, Currency, Debt, depression, economic policy, Free Market, Free Market, Gold, Government, Monetary Policy, Personal Finance, precious metals, recession, Security, Silver, stock market