Just about everywhere you look these days in the financial media, when the topic of discussion turns to the plunging U.S. dollar, you'll hear someone saying something like, "Unless the Fed raises interest rates, the dollar's got nowhere to go but down".And then someone invariably says, "But the... Continue Reading
Submitted ByRichard Wilson
SKAR Development Formula
There is a formula that I have used over the past 7 years to help me build my resume, career, and now my own small business, that is the SKAR Formula. This is not a way to shortcut the hard work it takes to be successful, but rather a map as to where invest your...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
Just about everywhere you look these days in the financial media, when the topic of discussion turns to the plunging U.S. dollar, you'll hear someone saying something like, "Unless the Fed raises interest rates, the dollar's got nowhere to go but down".And then someone invariably says, "But the...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
It looks like today will be an important day for those, on one side, who seek to shine a little more light on the operations of the Federal Reserve and those, on the other side, hoping to keep prying eyes away. Bloomberg reports that the House Financial Services Committee is discussing the issue...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
“In the old days … the Fed controlled the federal funds rate with open market operations,” Antulio Bomfim, a former Fed economist now with Macroeconomic Advisors LLC in Washington told Reuters. “Now, at least in this period when reserves are over-abundant, the way the Fed hopes to raise the...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
USA Today reports on a new study of how personal bankruptcies are working their way up the socio-economic ladder, increasingly affecting better educated families and homeowners.A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
Baltimore — (TFN): I am starting to sound like a broken record, bashing the actions of our government every day for the last week, but I don’t care. What these ignoramuses are doing is simply criminal.
It is becoming more and more apparent that today’s breed of politicians is good at only one...
Submitted ByJim Picerno
The danger is not the past, but the future. Today’s update on weekly jobless claims may be the warning sign. New filings for jobless benefits were unchanged last week, hovering at 505,000, matching the previous week’s tally. Although this number...
Submitted ByJoseph Cioffi
PULLBACK TIME?When you look at the dow chart and see the pattern we've put in place for the past couple of months it seems we go up in the first half of the month and then pull back to the rising moving averages in the second half of the month. So a trip down to 10,000-10,100 is possible in this...
Submitted ByGary Savage
How often have we traded based on what we think are tried and true technical indicators? Often I suspect.But here's the thing, most technical patterns that we think of as highly sucessful actually are not. Rememeber the market will eventually discount every system. Just as an example, how...
Just about everywhere you look these days in the financial media, when the topic of discussion turns to the plunging U.S. dollar, you'll hear someone saying something like, "Unless the Fed raises interest rates, the dollar's got nowhere to go but down".And then someone invariably says, "But the... Continue Reading 
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