Editor's Note: Matthew Beller is a former employee of the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He currently works for a private investment firm in Los Angeles, California

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

How long, O Lord, how long? It's always good to remember that the stock market is not the economy. Every day I come into the office to find literally dozens of emails complaining that the market is i

Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks ago about the vague concern that many of us have that the looming monster has the potential (my interpretation) not only to

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the upcoming earnings season will produce bifurcated results with larger companies generating at or above consensus results while smaller, more US-centr

Unemployment is high and rising. But if the recession is over, won’t employment start to rise? The quick answer is no. Today we’ll look deeper into the Statistical Recovery and find yet m

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist, author and 1974 Nobel Prize-winner for Economics wrote: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governme

Inquiring minds are once again reading excellent commentary by John Hussman, including his post Strenuously Overbought.  Last week, we closed out our modest "anti-hedge" in ind

Inquiring minds are wondering about the possibility of pent-up inflation from the massive expansion of money supply by the Federal Reserve. Our search for the truth starts with the question, "Wh

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