Journalist H.L. Mencken observed that, “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” I think we saw that personified by the screeching that came from the DC monkey cage […]
I was fortunate enough to have be able to play football for a number of years. I still enjoy watching and commenting on games – especially how the visual acuity of the referees at any […]
Not much action in the markets this past week. Market participants watched as politicians in DC postured and jockeyed for more face time in an attempt to look as if they were actually accomplishing something. Watching […]
This title has to do with the decision last Wednesday – one almost totally unexpected by the majority of economists, media outlets and traders – by the Fed’s Open Market Committee to do nothing about […]
You know how when you were a kid and you had one of those collapsible telescopes, how cool it was to make things far away seem up close? And then, you’d turn it around and […]
