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Republicans and Democrats Both Want to Kill You!

By Phil of Phil’s Stock World What is happening to this country? Robert Reich points out that, in announcing the Republicans’ new budget and tax plan Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said “We are sharpening the contrast between the path that we’re proposing and the path of debt and decline the president has placed us [...]

Crazy Little Thing Called Greece

Courtesy of Phil of Phil’s Stock World NOW Greece is going to matter? Just when we were planning to get bullish, the Futures are off half a point as concerns about Greece, of all things, come back to the forefront as pretty much the entire country is poised to strike this evening on the expected news [...]

Monday Market Musings – More Monetary Madness

Courtesy of Phil of Phil’s Stock World  More Free Money – OR ELSE! That’s the rally cry from the new IMF chief (appointed under mysterious circumstances). Lagarde gives the cry in Berlin this morning as she warns that the world will descent into the 1930s without – among other things – greater resources being devoted to various bailout [...]

How Many Times Will You Fall for the Same Thing?

Isn’t this exciting! The pre-markets are up 1% after a long weekend.  That hasn’t happened since – two weeks ago!  Of course last Tuesday, we were jammed up as well and the Tuesday after Christmas, we were jammed up as well but THIS TIME – we’re REALLY feeling it, right?   The funniest thing is [...]

Strap in for a Wild Week!

By Phil of Phil’s Stock World This chart from the NYTimes pretty much says it all: The average annual inflation-adjusted return for the S&P 500 has been in decline since the late 90s, the decline only paused in the 00s and that fooled us into thinking it was a recovery but we only stopped getting worse for a [...]

Rocks and Hard Places

Week Ahead Section The European “Black Debt” crisis seems to be dragging on and on. And while we worry about that, Bruce Krasting expressed the flip-side of our fears. The end could be near. He wrote, “We could see the whole Euro experiment unwind by March. The Fed can’t really do a thing. Its hands are tied. Bernanke [...]

Sound and Fury

By Ilene at Phil’s Stock World “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)  Shakespeare’s famous quote wasn’t written about the [...]

A Thinly Veiled Bail

By Ilene at Phil’s Stock World, with Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner (many thanks to Lee!) The ECB is borrowing U.S. Dollars from the Fed to bailout European banks. And that is in addition to the Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO). However, the “borrowing” is not called “borrowing.”  It’s called a “temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangement.”  Yet it is [...]

Twisted Tuesday – Treasuries are not an Option

GET PHIL’S SERVICE WITH FREE TRIAL THEN 20% DISCOUNT HERE! – CLICK NOW Remember Operation Twist? Last week, Freddie Mac reported record lows on rates, with the 30-year notes at 3.91%.  This has not, of course, encouraged many people to go out and buy homes but it has DISCOURAGED people from putting their money into [...]

That Hyddeous Strength

Here’s the newest Stock World Weekly, “That Hyddeous Strength.” The pattern that has emerged in the eurozone is that austerity measures are demanded of a particular country, the government of that country is either unable or unwilling to implement the austerity measures, then bond yields skyrocket and the government collapses. During the transition, one form or [...]