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  • 560 days Will The ECB Continue To Hike Rates?
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  • 967 days Americans Still Quitting Jobs At Record Pace
  • 969 days FinTech Startups Tapping VC Money for ‘Immigrant Banking’
  • 972 days Is The Dollar Too Strong?
  • 972 days Big Tech Disappoints Investors on Earnings Calls
  • 973 days Fear And Celebration On Twitter as Musk Takes The Reins
  • 975 days China Is Quietly Trying To Distance Itself From Russia
  • 975 days Tech and Internet Giants’ Earnings In Focus After Netflix’s Stinker
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  • 979 days The ‘Metaverse’ Economy Could be Worth $13 Trillion By 2030
  • 980 days Food Prices Are Skyrocketing As Putin’s War Persists
  • 982 days Pentagon Resignations Illustrate Our ‘Commercial’ Defense Dilemma
  • 983 days US Banks Shrug off Nearly $15 Billion In Russian Write-Offs
  • 986 days Cannabis Stocks in Holding Pattern Despite Positive Momentum
  • 987 days Is Musk A Bastion Of Free Speech Or Will His Absolutist Stance Backfire?
  • 987 days Two ETFs That Could Hedge Against Extreme Market Volatility
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Michael Ashton

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  • Side Bet With Ben?

    Published 14 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The markets are saying pretty clearly that there will be no more business done until the results of the Greek elections are known. For the…

  • Sick Horses All Rounded Up And Ready To Go

    Published 13 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Do you think that anyone who bought in the stock market updraft last Tuesday is having second thoughts? Today's retail sales figures were weak. Ex-autos,…

  • Not Out Of The Woods Yet (And A Book Review)

    Published 11 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Over the weekend, the Spanish crisis was semi-resolved with the EU agreeing in principle to give money from the ESM (which isn't operational yet) or…

  • Leftovers

    Published 08 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Friday was a lethargic day, with gorgeous weather producing in many market participants a justification for leisure running something like this: Europe is having a…

  • Model Abuse

    Published 07 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    A central bank is easing again! The only problem for U.S. market participants is that it isn't the Fed that is easing, but the Bank…

  • Curious Becomes Furious

    Published 06 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The only thing that kept this from being Freaky Friday is that it wasn't Friday. But it certainly seemed as if everything was reversed suddenly…

  • Inflation Risks More Balanced, But Not By Much

    Published 05 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The G-7 finance minister/central banker call came and went today with no earth-shattering announcement. In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said: The G-7 ministers…

  • It's Not Hot Money Any More

    Published 04 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Those rascals! While everyone was focusing on whether Greece would exit the Euro in the near-term (there's little question they will exit the Euro eventually),…

  • And From Mayday to Mayans

    Published 01 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    If you missed yesterday's comment "From May Day to Mayday," you can find it here. If there were any question whether the recent weakness seen…

  • From May Day to Mayday

    Published 31 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    By the time the calendar turned to May, one month ago, we already knew that the economy was weakening. The jury is still out on…

  • The Not-Laid Plans Of Mice And Men

    Published 30 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The nice aspect about Europe being the only thing that matters these days is that I don't have to wait until the end of the…

  • Ripping The Bandage

    Published 24 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    As a follow-up to yesterday's article, we take note of the home price data in today's reports. New Home Sales median prices didn't echo the…

  • Real Estate - A Good Investment Again?

    Published 22 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    After the comparatively high-volume selloff on Friday, the stock market responded with a low-volume rebound on Monday (except for new IPO FacePlant, which is now…

  • Cooler Than The Sun

    Published 18 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    In the long run, the market is a weighing machine. It is imperative to keep that bit of Ben Graham advice always in mind whenever…

  • More on CPI (Not To Be Confused With Moron CPI)

    Published 15 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    I posted earlier today some thoughts that I tweeted right after the CPI figures were released this morning, and added a few ancillary thoughts as…

  • CPI: Summary Of My Tweets

    Published 15 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Tweets from @inflation_guy on the CPI release, and added detail: Core CPI was +0.24%, barely missing an +0.3% print (interestingly, Bloomberg no longer calculates beyond…

  • A Time To Refrain From Embracing

    Published 10 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Today's bit of wisdom comes either from Ecclesiastes, or from The Birds (depending on your religious background): to everything there is a season, whether for…

  • Now It Begins...Again

    Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Well, there are quite a few things we have to discuss, aren't there? On Friday I had a couple of tweets about the Employment number…

  • Employment Report: Summary Of My Tweets

    Published 04 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Tweets from @inflation_guy on the Employment release, and added detail: It's starting to be almost comical: weak jobs growth (115k, though close to expectations with…

  • The Value of Balance

    Published 04 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    First, thanks to all of those readers who took time to respond to the poll attached to yesterday's comment. The early results are interesting, but…