19 July 2010

Well, I, for one, am more or less willing to throw in the towel on behalf of Inflation. For the near future at least, his adversary in the blue trunks, Deflation, has won on points. Even if we get intermittently rising commodity prices,…

There is a comprehensive review today in The Washington Post of a two year investigation of a hidden world that orbits what is known as Homeland Security. Here are a few highlights: These are some of the findings of a two-year…

John Hussman is out with his latest weekly commentary. He continues to make good points about the market's overvaluation despite the forward earnings crowd's cries that P/E ratios (see Hussman: US shares are 40% overvalued). While Comstock…

Marc Chandler is on holiday. This post comes via Win Thin, senior currency strategist at BBH. Newswires are reporting that a big German institution failed the bank stress tests.  The fact that this institution had already been taken…

Adam Hewison at INO does a little technical analysis of the EUR/USD trends in a video at INO MarketClub. I have linked to the video below, but first a few words. Back in May, I wrote: while there is currency revulsion now at work and…

Just a reminder, I will be on BBC Radio Five Live sometime around noonish tomorrow ET. I will post the links to my BNN piece from last week later today. The topic of today is jobs. There were a number of posts in which economists and media…

From Brown Brothers Harriman's Currency Strategy Team Highlights US dollar is mostly firmer on the day vs. the majors as risk off trading seems to be on the upswing, losing ground only to CAD and EUR.  The euro made another attempt…