Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau [...]
Although I sometimes speculate and invest in the markets using contrarian investment strategies, it’s usually because I feel pretty confident about my forecasts or where we’re headed.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any of that confidence right now. I’m not too sure what to make of the markets lately and I really don’t have any strong clues [...]
Just a little economic humor from one of my favorite editorial cartoonists, Steve Benson. Always humorous, but with a hint of truth.
Am I the only one embracing this market meltdown?
As we approach a bottom in this bear market my views will be changing. Instead of predicting doom, gloom, and despair as I had in the past, my financial views will be changing to the bullish point of view. Almost everything that I’ve forecast for the past [...]
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What’s On The Horizon?
As often as I try to encourage amateur individual investors like myself to embrace independent financial analysis and to make their own investment decisions, as a previous commenter with a vaginal problem shows, there are still those who’ll regurgitate what them deem is credible information in an attempt to convince us that someone else has [...]