Category Archives: News

If you’re just waking up this morning – and it’s the usual time, too bad for you that you don’t have one of those GS-whatever levels jobs in the federal government since this is Veterans Day and a holiday for … Continue reading →

A Tyler Durden piece over at Zerohedge.com tipped by a reader Monday is a fine place to begin a Tuesday morning conversation about “How frigging crazy are we?”   The answer (looked surprised, OK?) is very crazy, manic, irrational, and … Continue reading →

…you wake up, it’s Monday, and the US dollar is worth 0.666 of a Euro. Of course, it was only there for a few minutes, but still, it makes a thinking person wonder “What’s up?”  I mean besides the price … Continue reading →

Things in the financial markets should be interesting as the Dickens next week, since a number of major economic drivers are piling up the pressure.  Let me run through the list for you:   First – although it’s not a … Continue reading →

This morning’s report report is a few minutes early since we have to go load some goats which are going to the ‘all terrain self-powered brush mower’ auction today.  Banging heads with Boer goat bucks makes infinitely more sense than … Continue reading →

I’ve whined about this before, but I believe if you’re going to have whine, have lots of it – never too much whine or cheese to go with it, I say!  So ask yourself this one:  How can productivity increase … Continue reading →

Break the $1,100 barrier today?  Maybe.  The price of gold did a moonshot on Tuesday when word of a major gold sale from the IMF to India was announced.  Gold (chart above) continued its move early this morning and there’s … Continue reading →

OK, so when the market tanked 250+ points on Friday, what should the market have done on Monday?  A bounce, got it – the so-called Dead Cat Bounce.  (A term my cat Zeus detests, b ut go with me on … Continue reading →

The hardest daily decisions in most newsrooms is deciding which story to ‘lead’ with.  In television, that would usually be the story with their the catchiest images to would hold people over through breaks while in print it’s a combination … Continue reading →

And you thought Halloween was scary? Most Saturday mornings I wake up and the first thing I do, besides swilling coffee, is to sit down at the FDIC website and throw the latest bank reorganization dated into what has become … Continue reading →