David Yu

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• The Employment Problem

  Published 06 August 2007 | viewed 4,315 times

  I've had business relationship with American Home Mortgage (AHM), and I know people who used to work there. It's disheartening to see AHM employees leave…

• Where's The Liquidity?

  Published 24 April 2006 | viewed 4,265 times

  Many of us assumed that the Federal Reserve ceased reporting M3 aggregate money supply so that it may conceal its attempt to flood the system…

• On the Verge of Exhaustion

  Published 11 April 2006 | viewed 9,178 times

  Friday's sell-off in stocks and bonds, which surprised quite a few people, was ascribed to a growing economy that had low 4.7% hypothetical unemployment rate…

• Competitive Tightening - Part III

  Published 28 March 2006 | viewed 3,989 times

  Please read Competitive Tightening Part I and Part II first. In the aforementioned research paper prepared for the Federal Reserve Board, Francis & Veronica Warnock…

• Competitive Tightening - Part II

  Published 20 March 2006 | viewed 5,372 times

  Please read Competitive Tightening Part I first. Table below shows recent rate tightening by 9 major central banks. Except for Australia, these rate increases all…

• Competitive Tightening - Part I

  Published 08 March 2006 | viewed 4,526 times

  Many looked at recent rise in Treasury yields - and thus slump in Treasury prices - as evidence points to a stronger U.S. economy. The…

• The Jitters

  Published 07 February 2006 | viewed 5,272 times

  Economy's expanding as jobless rate in January fell to the lowest level in 4 years and factory orders rose. No, wait, economy's slowing down as…

• Too Old to Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young to Die!

  Published 23 January 2006 | viewed 4,074 times

  But it's not the high oil price, stagnant housing market, dissipating consumer spending, or even the declining corporate profits that hammered the market last week.…

• Able and Willing

  Published 16 January 2006 | viewed 5,489 times

  Market value is generally determined by the price agreed upon between a seller who's willing to sell and a buyer who's able and willing to…

• 2006: The Year of Charting Dangerously (Part 2)

  Published 10 January 2006 | viewed 5,780 times

  Before you begin, please read or review my 2006: The Year of Charting Dangerously (Part 1) first. Many applauded the strength of our economy that…

• Trade With The Flow

  Published 07 January 2006 | viewed 5,782 times

  An old rule on Wall Street is that two things drive stocks: corporate profit and interest rates. The fed's in a rate raising cycle, and…

• 2006: The Year of Charting Dangerously (Part 1)

  Published 03 January 2006 | viewed 5,973 times

  The Babylonians began celebrating New Year about 4,000 years ago as the season of rebirth and resolutions after the first day of spring (Vernal Equinox).…

• No Longer Equal

  Published 21 December 2005 | viewed 4,543 times

  "NSA stands for 'No Such Agency'." --- Dan Brown. When Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, wrote that only 3% of Americans were…

• A Tenuous Bullish Sentiment

  Published 13 December 2005 | viewed 4,914 times

  The bullish sentiment seems to have emerged in the past 2-3 weeks. Many analysts and newsletter writers have been turning bullish and urging investors to…

• Yield Curves See Trouble On The Horizon

  Published 07 December 2005 | viewed 10,041 times

  215,000 jobs outside the farm sector were said to be added in November. Interestingly, this payroll number's right on the money as the market's expecting…