It’s Friday and I am just itching for the weekend. On the agenda: my oldest daughter’s soccer game, a family get-together, and plans to sleep in at least one day. Chances are I might hit

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How is the consumer feeling?Not so great, it turns out.We learned this week that the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) slipped to 47.7 this month from 53.4 last month. Consumers’ perceptions of c

Many investors get stunned when the economy says one thing and the markets do another. Recently, I hear more retail investors saying, “This rally makes no sense. Unemployment is horrible and ge

So far earnings season has been greeted with a muted reaction by investors. Take today for instance, last night Google (GOOG) reported very strong numbers and today it traded higher by 3.76% to 549.8

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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

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

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What a nasty day it was yesterday. My umbrella blew inside out and broke like a Popsicle stick and I ended up getting soaked. It looked like I just got out of the shower by the time I got to the offi