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E From Dividends To EPS – Why Stock Prices Are What They Are, Part 2
<< Read Part 1: Why Stock Prices Are What They Are This is the second installment in a series that explains why stocks are priced as they are (or for those who prefer a more ... -
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So You Want To Fight The Central Banks? Then Short Treasurys
Following the great financial crisis in which capitalism was almost wiped out due to too much debt, a funny thing happened on the path to recovery (paved with some $57 trillion in... -
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The Big Four Economic Indicators: Industrial Production
Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their de... -
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Consumer Confidence Plunges Below Any Economist’s Estimate; Consumers Shock Economists
Consumer confidence is the third miss by economists in a single day. Please consider the Bloomberg Consensus Estimate for Consumer Confidence. Consumer confidence has fallen... -
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Big Surprise; Greece Demands An Emergency Meeting With The Euro-Group
As expected, Greece was able to make the 750M EUR payment to the International Monetary Fund last Tuesday but in order to get its hands on the cash, the country had to force all of... -
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Grand Slam
I confess to being baffled by the strength of Denny’s over the past year or two. That bafflement, combined with the chart, compelled me to short it a few days ago at $10.72.... -
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Fall In Capacity Utilization Reflects The Effective Demand Limit
The Effective Demand limit upon the economy is not a very visible concept in the econo-blogosphere. Yet, it represents a limit upon the utilization of labor and capital toward the ... -
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Currency Misalignment: A Reprise
As the Congress debates currency manipulation [1], it occurs to me useful to reprise my earlier primer on currency misalignment (first published in March 2010), where misalignme... -
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Semiconductor M&A Heating Up: 3 Stocks To Watch
Consolidation in the semiconductor sector has increased over the last few years, but that hasn’t really caught our attention because the size of deals was small — so small,... -
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Am I Investing Or Speculating…?
“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative....
