Heck of an Asset Inflation We’re Not Having Brownie…
You don’t get to be head of the Fed without being a pretty darn good poker player, bluffing with a straight face you are not tightening, while in fact you are.
Nowhere was this more evident today than with 90-Day Treasury Bills, which today hit Six-month highs at [...]

Aloha all.
Friends and family, have Courage and Be of Good Cheer, for these are the times that may try men’s souls.
The markets are divided. This is nothing new under the sun.
We have long had Producers, Speculators and those in between.
Is this the first time in recorded history speculators slammed economy, people and producers with considerable [...]

Washington and Lincoln had their Anniversary Days merged, and Jefferson never got one. It’s well worth recalling what they said to guide us today. Never was their acute vision more relevant than now. The language and elocution, although less accessible than today’s pop styles, become comprehensible like Shakespeare with a enough time dedicated to reading [...]

Money is the mother’s milk of politics…If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze and screw their women, and still vote against them, you have no business being up here.
Big Daddy Unruh,
California Speaker of the House, Gubernatorial Candidate and California Treasurer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_M._Unruh

Corporations, Foundations and Unions gather billions to control politics, the economy and our [...]

Now that the lemmings bought $64 in bond funds for every stock fund, gold, real estate and silver are down, and money market funds may legally refuse redemptions, what can we do to save ourselves?
Rich Cash

Not one man in a million understands deflation.
Rick Ackerman’s website had a lively conversation on inflation versus deflation today, [...]

What a difference a day and another dollar can make.

Over the weekend we posted the ISEE Call to Put Volume Opening Ratio from the International Securities Exchange, the world’s largest equity options exchange.

http://www.ise.com/

In Support of:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Speaker of the House Pelosi

Senator Harkin

Senator Sanders

House Ways and Means Chairman Rangel

The Japanese Nikkei 225 peaked at 18,300.39 in February 2007. That was eight months before the American Dow 30 Industrials peaked at 14,279.46 in October. http://stockcharts.com/charts/gallery.html?s=%24indu

The NIKK fell some -12% since August 2009, perhaps ahead of the Dow 30 again. http://stockcharts.com/charts/gallery.html?$NIKK

I had a financial friend who was a triskaidekaphobe. He did not like the Friday the 13th film franchise genre, with 12 films now. (Will the 13th release be unlucky?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_%28franchise%29

We Have Met the Enemy and He is not US
Or the Once Almighty Dollar or Pound - Free the Yuan!

HH HMS Eclectica CIO (Chief Investment Officer) recently caught our eye as guest CIO (Chief Information Officer) on British CNBC.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1297057096&play=1

(Now we may know why those BBC cookies keep showing up [...]