Archive for June 2008
What Ever Happened To Thrift?
June 10, 2008 · Category: Macro Economics, Culture and Current Events, Business Culture and Current Events, Federal Reserve, Geopolitics
The people who created this country built a moral structure around money. The Puritan legacy inhibited luxury and self-indulgence. Benjamin Franklin spread a practical gospel that emphasized hard work, temperance and frugality. Millions of parents, ...
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Bernanke Continues To Jawbone About Inflation
Moreover, the latest round of increases in energy prices has added to the upside risks to inflation and inflation expectations. The Federal Open Market Committee will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as ...
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Job Losses = Dollar Drop = Oil Rise = Stock Market Crash
June 6, 2008 · Category: Macro Economics, Commodities, Market Commentary, Foreign Exchange, Geopolitics
The unemployment rate rose from 5.0 to 5.5 in May, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down (-49,000), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor reported today.
- May Jobs Report, ...
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Discounters Report Strong May Sales
Retailers reported supposedly strong May sales this morning. But I don't know that they were really all that strong. Discounters like Walmart and Costco were strong. But department stores and speciality retailers weren't all that ...
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Front Page WSJ Article On Bernanke’s Speech Yesterday
[Chairman Bernanke] went today where no other Fed chairman has gone in my 20 years of doing this. He dove into the deep end of the dollar policy pool.
- David Gilmore (subscription required), Foreign Exchange Analytics
As ...
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What Tanked The Market At 1:30pm EST Today?
June 3, 2008 · Category: Stocks, Market Commentary
I can't quite figure out why the market started tanking at 1:30pm EST today (S&P Intraday Chart).
I want to cheat and say it was GM's ugly May Sales Report in which they announced a 28% ...
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Bernanke Talks Up The Dollar
June 3, 2008 · Category: Commodities, Market Commentary, Federal Reserve, Foreign Exchange, Inflation
In collaboration with our colleagues at the Treasury, we continue to carefully monitor developments in foreign exchange markets. The challenges that our economy has faced over the past year or so have generated some downward ...
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