There will be blood all right and not just in oil, which suffered a steep drop to fall for the first day in four. As Twilight tweens screamed to see another gory story at the box office, S&P 500

With the US dollar falling down a precipice, spare a thought for non-US investors invested in US stocks and bonds. The graph below shows the performance of US 10-year Treasury Notes since the beginni

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Through that lens, the current course of fiscal and monetary po

Where there's smoke, there's Geithner? The recent FASB board meeting was on the 11th and the main topics of discussion surrounded concerns and implications of 167 ruling, and improving dis

On Friday, as I pulled together thoughts for my syndicated column, I pinged Scott Reamer to ask him a question. He informed me global central banks and government agencies have thrown upwards of $30

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Geithner Talk on Strong Dollar US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was in Japan today saying the United States is committed to a strong dollar policy.According to the Wall Street Journal, Geithner

George Soros discusses an entirely different crossroads. I've been too cautious the last few months and I own that. I'm usually early, however, and while I certainly see both sides, my sen

Stocks surged, sending the S&P 500 up for a sixth straight session and propelling the Dow to a 13 month high, after a G-20 host became the market’s Darling for a day. Equities and ironies e