EconBlog Review

Gold shorts smell blood per BBG : When this occurs with the long-term chart of an asset breaking down but still up more than 5 times fr...

There's been a hiatus in posting due to a combo of travel and problems with accessing Blogger, as well as my interest in becoming more a...

The FINVIZ charts I follow finally show that the large and small traders combined have taken a very small net long position in the 30 year b...

Today's market action continues the pretense that stocks provide any security of receiving one's nominal money back, valued in US do...

CNBC "reports"  ( LINK ): Get Ready to Play the Coming Deflation Trade    What seemed like economic fantasy could soon become ...

Mr Grantham, of GMO.com, yesterday provided his 7-year estimates for different asset classes based on data from the end of March.  He now gi...

Perhaps the amazing drop in gold relates to a forced seller or sellers.  And, perhaps the Cyprus bank closures are necessitating that.  Or c...

Everything is relative in the markets.  A mediocre economic performance despite large fiscal deficits and gobs of new money creation by the ...

From the NFIB report today on small business ( LINK ): And earnings trends (3-month average): And the overall picture: Star...

Back to basics from at least one part of the Bank of England?   (LINK ): BOE Says Investors May Be Taking ‘Too Rosy’ a View of Stress   ...

Forget Cyprus.  The best sign that the current stock rally is in trouble came from SF Fed president John Williams today ( LINK ):  "...

I've been out of pocket for several days and am getting over an injury, so this will be the first post in a bit and will be brief.  I do...

With Jeremy Grantham's valuation models suggesting that the average large cap and the average small cap US stock will underperform an A-...

Only they are not rated AAA anymore.  They don't get ratings, that's the lesson learned from the last decade.  If you don't rate...