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Next week will be light as earnings season is starting to come to a close and there isn’t a lot of economic data due to Wednesday's Veterans Day holiday (the bond market is closed but the stock

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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

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1) United States of Adequateness'"Is it rational for us to say all institutions should be well-capitalized both in the good times and in the bad times? Or are there ways for us to say in more di

Editor's Note: This article is by Don Fishback, of Don Fishback's Market Update.I wrote an article about what it really means when VIX is at 40. I noted that it was unusual that VIX rose both Fr

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