Bloomberg’s Steve Matthews and A. Catarina Saraiva have a very interesting assessment of the economic data coming from the good old U.S.A. Their assessment is based upon various indices that track how well, or badly, the actual economic data is faring in comparison to market prognosticators’ (their word not mine) expectations. One of their sources is Bloomberg…
Noted for you Wednesday morning procrastinations. Here are some of the interesting things that I found around the net. Hopefully, you will find these useful and interesting too. How a Rising Dollar Is Creating Trouble for Emerging Economies – The soaring value of the American dollar is rippling across the globe. As it rises, it is…
The market volatility has increased significantly this year. Last year was very sedate and the major U.S. indices inched up gradually and with much more certainty than this year. In the year 2014, the Dow Jones Industrial Averages closed up or down by triple digit from previous day’s close on 81 days or 32% of times. So far…
Here is what I read on Monday and early Tuesday around the net. Some are market related, some tare on geo-politics and some are for fun. Hope you will find these useful and informative. The US Oil Bust Just Got Worse – So there is a very good chance that storage capacity will disappear as a death trap…
A plethora of success materials implores us to set specific goals if we are serious about realizing them. Certainly, if we have clearly defined goals then it becomes easier to develop a plan to achieve them as compared to developing a plan to achieve un-specified goals. Similarly, it is easier to accomplish something with a…
The market is waiting for the FOMC statement to come out on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, with bated breadth. Last week the market participants were quite busy reading the FOMC tea-leaves to ascertain when would FOMC remove the word “patient” from its policy statement. Would it do this in the coming meeting or in April or later? Apparently, the removal of this…
Israel’s Gilded Age – According to Luxembourg Income Study data, the share of Israel’s population living on less than half the country’s median income — a widely accepted definition of relative poverty — more than doubled, to 20.5 percent from 10.2 percent, between 1992 and 2010. The share of children in poverty almost quadrupled, to…
Here is what I read on Friday and early Saturday around the net. As usual some are related to the market, some to geo-politics and some are for fun. Hope you will find these useful and interesting. Why Germany Shouldn’t Take Its Economic Success for Granted – Indeed, Germany’s policymakers seem to be stumbling from decision to…
I liked this song when it first came out in 1983. I did not understand it then and still don’t though know a bit more about it. It is an anti-war song and is quite relevant in 2015 too. The plot talks about 99 balloons, which were mistaken for UFOs. A general sends pilots to investigate…
Global finance faces $9 trillion stress test as dollar soars – Contrary to popular belief, the world is today more dollarized than ever before. Foreigners have borrowed $9 trillion in US currency outside American jurisdiction, and therefore without the protection of a lender-of-last-resort able to issue unlimited dollars in extremis. This is up from $2…
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