It never ceases to amaze me what hype people will believe. The latest is a series of posts by Jim Sinclair who, on August 14, started a countdown to dollar oblivion. August 14, 2009: The Motivation B

Once again, I’ll share a chart of what I call “food for food,” not because anybody reading this trades soybean meal, but perhaps that fact, in and of itself, offers evidence as to w

As I type this, the VIX is up about 6.5% for the day and VXX is only up about 2.0%.While it looks like today is a good day to be long volatility, getting four-thirteenths of the move in the VIX with

COMEX open interest rose once again on Monday, by nearly 1%, to 375,875 contracts. And once again, this rise in open interest occurred on a day in which gold fell. Thus, it’s a good bet that th

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut

Mid-March is usually reserved for college basketball. But this year, there’s going to be a different kind of March Madness. I refer, of course, to the “deep dive” to be held on Thur