Retail gas prices have been falling now for the last month, see chart above. And yet “rising gas prices” still seems to have much greater media coverage than “falling gas prices,” according to a Google News Search for the last 30 days, by a ratio of about 50-to-1.
Markets in China and Hong Kong closed Tuesday for May Day holidays. Property developers saddled with unsold inventory and rising debt will get some respite, but it could be a tough ride ahead. China has been trying to tamp property inflation since 2010, and its policy seem to be working: average house prices have fallen for five consecutive months. A…
CPA Robert Keebler is leading Keebler & Associates LLP to the cutting edge of tax and estate planning.
Re-balance Cycle Reminder
Based on our monthly re-balance calendar, the next re-balance time will be on Monday, May 28, 2012. You can also find the re-balance calendar of 2012 on ‘My Portfolios’ page.
As a reminder to expert users: advanced portfolios are still re-balanced based on their original re-balance schedules and they are not the …
As Arch Daily notes, for decades the suburbs and the American Dream went hand-in-hand but the age-of-sprawl is ending; people are leaving the suburbs and once again flocking to cities in search of a better way of life. Whether Suburbia can be saved or not, this useful infographic looks at the key factors (from Poverty to Transportation costs to Gener…
Tokyo stocks fell, largely in response to the sharp fall in the dollar against the yen, with several exporters such as Tokyo Electron dropping sharply. The Nikkei was off 1.1%.
Fred Singer writing for the Independent Institute: “Consider the consequences of having huge quantities of cheap natural gas available. It will make new coal-fired power plants uneconomic, but it will also make new nuclear plants uneconomic. It is ironic that these two longed-for goals of radical environmentalists are being achieved simply through ec…
Bond issuers are adding insurance again, providing protection to investors but driving down payouts.
The topsy-turvy world of Chinese macroeconomic data continues to provide the Schrodinger-prone unreality that we have come to expect in this keep-’em-guessing Central Bank-driven fiat-fest we are experiencing. For 9 of the last 10 months, HSBC’s China Manufacturing PMI has been in a contraction (sub-50) regime, while China’s own Manufacturing PMI saw…
Want to trade in the afternoon? Think again, analysts say.
The pastel-wearing President of TrimTabs proffers an entirely non-perfunctory prose explaining why he believes we are now due for a stock market decline. Echoing our thoughts, Charles notes that “It’s the Federal Reserve that controls the market, it’s their money, they’re the boss, we play with their money that they print or stop printing”. Sadly tru…
Obama and Romney Are Both Ignoring the Real Issue with Killing Bin Laden
The anniversary of Bin Laden's death is big news.
Obama is bragging about how he whacked Bin Laden, accusing Romney of being too soft to take out bad guys.
Romney supporters accuse Obama of "spiking the football" and inappropriately showing off to score poli…
After Monday’s release of the Chicago Business Barometer fell short of expectations, the outcome of Tuesday’s manufacturing report is suddenly in doubt.
Bank of America Corp. is planning about 2,000 staff cuts in its investment banking, commercial banking and non-U.S. wealth-management units.
SEC officials say they are taking a closer look at the behavior of attorneys who they think are thwarting investigations, including some related to the financial crisis.
Stephen King created a new bad guy: himself. The victims are conservatives.
Stephen King created a new bad guy: himself. The victims are conservatives.
Stephen King created a new bad guy: himself. The victims are conservatives.
Banks and investors are showering junk-rated companies with easy money, the latest sign that risk-taking is spreading through parts of the financial markets.
Over the past century, an American industrial revolution has given rise to the biggest, most productive food machine the world has ever known. In this episode, host Yul Kwon explores how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day. He discovers engineering marvels we’ve created by putting nature to work and takes a look […]
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