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- When Will the Treasury Bubble Burst?
- Rob Viglione submits: 2008 was one of the best years on record for U.S. Treasury bonds. The iShares Lehman 20+ Year ETF TLT - a good proxy for 30-Year Treasuries - gained 23% over the year. However, Treasuries seem to be winding down an unprecedented bull rally, with rates retracting...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Task Force for the Middle Class and Other Obama Follies
- Rob Viglione submits: In a nice sounding call to arms President Obama charged Vice President Joe Biden with heading up a “task force on the middle class.” It is not exactly clear how the task force will help this particular demographic, other than it being “a panel made up of...
- External links 2009-02-01
- The Consequences of Perpetual Inflation
- Rob Viglione submits: Inflation has long been a contentious topic in the U.S., not really abating at any point since the 1960’s. President Johnson’s “Guns & Butter” policies of the Vietnam war era sparked a good deal of money printing, inflation, and debate. Since then the Federal...
- External links 2009-03-09
- Greenspan Yet Again Blames Others for Housing Bubble
- Rob Viglione submits: Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that absolves himself of any wrong-doing in the housing bubble and its subsequent destructive aftermath. Latching onto a weak argument that circa 2002 long-term mortgage and short-term federal funds rates had statistically...
- External links 2009-03-12
- Use VIX as Portfolio Insurance
- Rob Viglione submits: The stock market hit and then furiously bounced off a low on March 9th. Since then it has shot up about 30% nearly uninterrupted. Hope abounds that we may be emerging from one of the worst economic disasters in 20+ years. By many measures the frantic chaos...
- External links 2009-04-19
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