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Steven Wright, Academy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer, sees things differently from most of us, to our amazement and amusement. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) David Rosenberg: “We’re halfway through a secular bear market.” (Top Gun Financial Planning, 7/7/09) Can You Make Money Online? (Learn Financial Planning, 5/1/09) Doug Casey on Government Motors (Blogging the Commodity Bull Market, 4/28/09)
“The S&P 500 Index is stalling again and now turning down from the 950 area. Given the large run-up off the lows it should not be a surprise to anyone to see the market starting to stall, pause or retrace,” said Kevin Lane of Fusion IQ in this short guest post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) S&P 500 Chart – The Art of Technical Analysis (My Trader's Journal, 1/22/12) S&P 500 Chart – Ascending Triangles (My Trader's Journal, 1/8/12) What a Little-Known Market Tool Is Telling Us About U.S. Stocks in 2012 (Money Morning, 1/11/12)  By Prieur du Plessis, on June 16th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money  2 people had their say - chime in!
The “less-bad-than-expected” school of thought is largely based on survey data such as the Purchasing Managers Indices (PMIs). It therefore makes for interesting reading to revisit the historical relationship between the PMI and stock market movements. Read on for the research results. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Dow Jones Chart – December 9, 2011 (My Trader's Journal, 12/11/11) The Economy and Bond Market Radar (January 9, 2012) (GreenLightAdvisor Views, 1/8/12) 9 Out of 11 Ain’t Bad (Investment U, 2/17/09)
This post provides links to some thought-provoking articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find of interest. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Lessons Learned from Comparing Today’s Markets to Markets From October 15, 2007 (the Underground Investor, 5/18/09) Must Reads Monday, June 15, 2009 (Contrarian Profits, 6/15/09) The Economic Recovery: Have Stock Values Gone From Green to Yellow to Red? (Investment U, 5/15/09) 
The humor slot today revisits a newspaper clip that did the rounds in 2007, virtually at the peak of the bull market. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Dividend Tree Potpourri – June 14, 2009 (Dividend Tree, 6/14/09) The Free Market is Nothing More Than a Fairy Tale (Wealth Daily, 6/29/09) The Truth About Washington and Wall Street (Wealth Daily, 9/4/09) By Prieur du Plessis, on June 15th, 2009 posted in: Guest Bloggers, Housing Sorry, but comments are closed
“The higher relative implicit yield on owner-occupied housing is yet one more positive element arguing in favor of the bottoming of housing demand,” argues Paul Kasriel in this quest post. Read on for his methodology and some interesting graphs. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Out of Answers, Federal Reserve Can Only Offer Empty Rhetoric (Money Morning, 12/13/11) How to Win Bernanke's War on Savers with a 19% Yield (Money Morning, 1/18/12) What did the Fed know? (Wealth Daily, 12/1/11) |
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