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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat is a stock market crash? The short answer is that it depends on your risk profile. The financial media covers a one-day drop of 4% as though it were a crash....
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ThinkstockIt’s back! It is time for yet another round of political infighting over the lovely state of our nation’s finances. Monday was bloodied by undertones of war or military intervention in...
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ThinkstockIf you had questions about the “if and when” of the tapering of the $85 billion in bond purchases in quantitative easing, the answer is looking more and more clear that it will begin...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve issued some updates to its balance sheet and payments data on Friday, and the long and short of the matter is that you are going to see why the Fed needs to start its...
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Jon OggThe Federal Reserve has released the official minutes from the July 31 FOMC meeting. As many have expected, the minutes are showing that the Fed members are more or less ready to begin...
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Jon OggBy now you have caught on that interest rates have risen, and they appear poised to keep testing higher yields. With the 10-year Treasury yield so close to 3% and the 30-year Treasury so close...
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U.S. National Park ServiceThe recession was followed by a call from Meredith Whitney that there could be waves of municipal defaults in the years ahead. The bankruptcy of Detroit only brought that...
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Jon OggStocks have pulled back from new all-time highs and interest rates have risen more than 100 basis points on the longer-end of the yield curve. Investors are expecting a tapering effect of the...
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Jon OggIt is no secret now that interest rates have risen. Long-term Treasury yields and even intermediate Treasury yields are now perhaps even starting to normalize even with Ben Bernanke and the...
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ThinkstockSaginaw County, which is more than an hour’s drive north of Detroit, and Genesee County, about the same distance away, cancelled bond offerings, supposedly because the collapse of Detroit...
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PIMCO is perhaps the best known of the mega bond fund managers out there, and that makes Bill Gross the defacto bond king. His latest investment outlook is titled “Bond Wars” now that interest...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims. The past week’s report rose by 5,000 to 333,000. The Dow Jones and Bloomberg estimates called for...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve statement from the July FOMC meeting has been released. Ben Bernanke and the team inside the Fed are looking for the economy to continue improving,...
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ThinkstockAlcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) is in the midst of a turnaround, or perhaps correcting a misguided turnaround that has hobbled the communications equipment maker for a decade. The stock was...
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Jon OggThe days of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve are looking shorter and shorter ahead of his term expiration in 2014. President Obama has said that Bernanke is likely ready to...
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