Markets

Mar 26, 2012 at 16:27

The whole talk about the USD being the world currency reserve seems silly to me. Over the last decade the USD has been consistently loosing value to commodities, we can…

Mar 26, 2012 at 15:59

Robert P. Stiller, founder and chairman of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR), sold $66.3 million of his stock before it plunged the most in four months on news that…

Mar 26, 2012 at 12:42

The last three months marked the first anniversary of events considered unthinkable before 2010. The past year saw the outbreak of sweeping protests throughout Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and beyond ...

Mar 26, 2012 at 12:28

The struggle of the mining stocks has surprised many including us. We thought record profits and a bullish environment would catapult the miners out of a consolidation and into a…

Mar 26, 2012 at 12:15

To paraphrase the great Steve Martin, today's investors are very passionate people and passionate people tend to overreact at times. An overreaction is exactly what's happened in gold and global…

Mar 26, 2012 at 12:00

Futures are up this AM as we approach the end of the quarter. Now I'll be the first to tell you never to trust a Monday morning gap up. But…

Mar 26, 2012 at 11:43

Bernanke's blind faith in empirical formulas over common sense is again in play with his speech today on Recent Developments in the Labor Market.

Mar 26, 2012 at 10:28

Despite all the supposedly good news emanating from the US in the form of "improving employment conditions" allow me to be the one who continues to shout FIRE or more…

Mar 26, 2012 at 10:04

In response to a bursting real estate and credit bubble in 2007 Bernanke's solution was to crank up the printing press and flood the world with dollar bills. Unfortunately it…

Mar 26, 2012 at 09:49

This week, my congressional committee will hold a hearing to examine how the Federal Reserve bails out European banks, propping up spendthrift European governments in the process. Unfortunately this bailout…