1. The Debt Crisis is SimpleAwash as we are in a sea of Federal Reserve- and Treasury Department-sponsored financial acronyms, it would be easy to assume the complexity of the debt crisis is beyond t

For the past several weeks, I've been making the bifurcated earnings season argument for third-quarter 2009 results. I've also tied the earnings results to the price action of the key market cap sect

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1. The Federal Reserve is Irrelevant... for NowWell, that was fun wasn't it? All that waiting and waiting yesterday afternoon, and for what? Just a brief statement churned out from a laser printer, a

1) Good News: We're Halfway There!I've been following an analog that a friend passed along several months ago comparing our current market juncture to the 1930s. The chart below shows the stock marke

The SetupI apologize for not being able to get this out sooner, but I have been busier than a one-armed paperhanger since 5 a.m.The Reader’s Digest version of what defines a “

1. Fewer Banks Are Tightening Their Lending Standards"Although credit conditions remain strained, an April survey of loan officers by the Federal Reserve found a smaller number of banks were tig

1. Last Man Standing?An old market saying is that stocks bottom only when the last seller has sold. On the one hand, this is clearly a tongue-in-cheek battle tale. But there is something intuitively

The Securities and Exchange Commission may require some US companies to switch to international accounting rules by 2014. The SEC says the change will make American companies more competitive in the

As the pendulum swings between greed and fear, investors typically behave in 1 of 2 ways: They either become over-enthusiastic during bull markets and over-despondent as the bear’s growl grows