Michael Ashton

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• Some Useful Charts And Thoughts About Personal Investing

  Published 12 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I just finished a paper called "Managing Laurels: Liability-Driven Investment for Professional Athletes," and I thought that one or two of the charts might be…

• Short But Sour

  Published 11 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  A slow Monday, and the S&P could barely manage a +0.3% rally. That's tantamount to a selloff, these days, as the all-time nominal highs are…

• All Men Are Mortal

  Published 06 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Hugo Chavez, dictator of Venezuela and socialist extraordinaire, passed away on Monday in Caracas. The world will little note nor long remember what Chavez did…

• Gold, and Dilemmas

  Published 04 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  At the start of another Employment week, the same refrain echoes: higher equity markets, soft commodities markets (because changes in China's policies will hurt the…

• Trading A Random Number Generator

  Published 27 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Surely Bernanke is right, and all of this crazy price action is merely discounting rational outlooks. Today, the Chairman told Congress that "the fact that…

• Global Gridlock

  Published 25 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It's hard for me to truly grasp the reality of a world in which the downgrade of the British Empire's credit (late on Friday) was…

• A Bad Day At The Federal Reserve

  Published 21 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  There will be many more days ahead for the Fed, and many of them will have plenty of good news. It is a mistake to…

• Gravity Still Works, After All

  Published 20 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Mild weakness in housing data (Housing Starts fell to only the second-highest level since 2008) seemed to be a sufficient excuse today to send stocks…

• Too Much Fuel Will Extinguish The Fire

  Published 19 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Stocks continue to climb inexorably: 21 of the 33 trading days this year have seen stocks end the day higher. About the only market that…

• The Currency War Is Not New: It's Merely Escalating

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  A quick summary of where we are in the "global currency war:" For several years now, global central banks have been engaging quietly in this…

• More Reactions to the Fed's Exit Possibilities

  Published 11 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I have said it before, and I will say it again: one of the most important reasons I write these articles is to test my…

• Limits On The 500-pound Gorilla

  Published 10 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Well, here's an interesting little tidbit. (But first, a note from our sponsors: some channels didn't pick up my article from last Wednesday, "Fun With…

• Fun With The CPI

  Published 06 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  As the markets gyrate, trying to decide on just what the next move is going to look like, I thought I'd answer a question a…

• Increasingly Wary

  Published 06 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Monday's decline in global equities wasn't exactly a wrenching selloff, except for one thing: it seemed to be completely unexpected. While the S&P only fell…

• Employment (Tweets and Further Detail)

  Published 01 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Employment Report: Unemp Rate up to 7.923% from 7.849% - the consumer confidence report was the hint that'd happen. Always hard to look at the…

• Breaking Open the Piggy Bank

  Published 31 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  We have one month in the books in 2013 already; my, how time flies when you're having fun! But the fun may not last much…

• Home Price Increases - Not An Illusion

  Published 29 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It seemed like last month I was focusing on the bigger picture a lot more than I have been recently. This is a function of…

• Not Growing to the Sky - Nor Ready to Fall, Yet

  Published 29 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If only we could dwell permanently in January, looking at December 2012 economic data, the U.S. would be a warm and sunny place. Today's Durable…

• Dropping the Anchor

  Published 24 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The S&P managed to hit the seemingly-important 1,500 level today, before fading to close unchanged. The market took heart early from the print of Initial…

• Today's Icarus

  Published 23 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It is hard to be the top dog. Today, despite another low-volume session (incredibly, NYSE Composite volume is already 1.5 billion shares behind 2012's volume-to-date),…