75 Economic Numbers From 2012 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe | ZeroHedge
Compiled by Michael of Investment Watch blog, What a year 2012 has been! The mainstream media continues to tell us what a “great job” the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing of…
Everything could be rigged
UBS Admits Rigging Rates in 'Epic' Plot This confirms my suspicion that much more than previously known about the markets is rigged. Over the years my market philosophy has heavily depended on…
Municipalities Fight a Proposal to Tax Muni Bond Interest - NYTimes.com
Muni buyers and owners listen up. If you haven't been paying attention you might not know but in the last week the value of your muni bond portfolio has dropped 5%. The trade that looked good after…
Robert Shiller: Don’t Await Housing Boom
No one knows more about housing than this guy. In fact no one knows more about the economy in general. He's the man in my opinion. There is a video of the entire Economics class he teaches…
On Capitol Hill, Fiscal Talks Now Turn to U.S. Borrowing Limit - NYTimes.com
I thought this article from Saturday's NY Times was propitious and something Sax Angle readers could benefit from. After reading this, one can't help but draw the conclusion that we are heading into…
Rare Apple technical set up
Apple is now showing bullish divergence on both weekly and daily RSI charts. Note that the weekly RSI diviergence has been rare and even more importanly rarely wrong. What does that mean? After…
We talked about this last night
Ironic, we have been railing about this for some time now. Glad to see the WSJ picking up the baton. In 2007, a top securities regulator warned that executives could be abusing preset plans to buy…
Insider-Trading Probe Widens - WSJ.com
Insiders know what they are doing. They have a huge advantage over the common stock investor. That's why the SEC has laws intended to level the playing field. Come to our Investment Survival…
The Coming Real Estate 'Fiscal Cliff' - Business Insider
I'm not predicting a housing price collapse but all four of these events are almost certain to happen to some degree and none of them are good for house prices. Four Major Events That Could…
Our 3rd largest holding CYS just announced a special dividend, up after hours
We wrote on December 6th about the sell off in mortgage REIT's and the big insider buying as a result of that. It seems that after hours today, CYS just announced their normal dividend and a big…