Perpetuating American Greatness After the Fiscal Cliff
March 10, 2013 President Obama insists on a balanced approach to raise taxes and cut spending to reduce the federal deficit. Both raising taxes and reducing spending will hurt our economy. He doesn’t...
View ArticleA Sense of Fairness
We CAN AND SHOULD change our federal tax laws to encourage cash rich corporations and individuals to invest in a new type of Jump Start America Bonds to improve our transportation infrastructure,...
View ArticleBeware Of The Role Of Short Selling And Stop Loss Orders In The Current...
For months we listened to investment experts on financial news programs advise investors to protect their positions against a market correction by using stop loss orders. As stock prices rose...
View ArticleShort Selling Does Not Promote Pricing Efficiency
Only fools, who do not understand the interplay of short selling with chart theory, stop-loss orders, margin calls, and panic selling in market downturns, think that short selling is a price discovery...
View ArticleThe Twitter Stock Price Roller Coaster
In the short time period since the Twitter IPO its stock price has performed as if it was riding a roller coaster. Various factors have contributed to its meteoric rise to a peak, followed by a rapid...
View ArticlePREVENTING STOCK MARKET CRASHES
After every stock market crash we search for the causes and change rules and regulations to prevent future recurrences. Politicians are not well suited for the task. It is unlikely that the current...
View ArticleHas Chairman Powell Learned From His Terrible Mistakes?
For years the talking heads and their guests on cable news endlessly chattered about interest rates remaining near zero in the US and negative in Europe. They talked of the “new normal”. However, some...
View Article“Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!” When Discussing Fed Actions And The US...
Many investors spend hours each week watching programs on CNBC that endlessly discuss the state of the US economy and the actions of the Fed. Most of what they say is repetitive foolish banter...
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