After The Rise In Treasury Yields, REITs Are Still A Buy
After a solid start to the year—and a torrid 2014—REITs have really stumbled of late. With bond yields rebounding off of their lows and with Fed Chair Janet Yellen slowly …
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NZD/USD Flexes Its Muscles, Yet Fails
The NZD/USD pair broke out during the session on Thursday, but the 0.74 level offered a bit too much resistance and we pulled back in order to show that there are in …
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Watch As All The Bond Rats Jump Ship Before FOMC Meeting
  Short-Term Market Flipping Markets are just hilarious these days, there is no meaningful investments in the era of High Frequency Trading, Spoofing Algos, Pump & Dump IPO Schemes …
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PE Expansion US, Eurozone, Japan; S&P Number Of Days Without 10% Correction; Central Bank Bubble Blowers
Albert Edwards at Society General emailed a PDF on PE expansion and other equity trends. Albert comments … “Mario Draghi and the ECB’s manipulation of asset prices make s Greenspan’s …
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Those Wacky Central Bankers!
by Pebblewriter, Pebblewriter.com SPX hit our purple target yesterday, bounced to the first level of resistance at the SMA50, and continued toward the red target. The purple target was first suggested on …
Read More I’m Beginning To Suspect That Matt O’Brien Isn’t Omniscient
The Ezra Kleinless wonkblog remains excellent. In particular Matt O’Brien is about as young, smart, witty, and hard working as Klein. However, I think he may not have read everything. …
Read More Short Rate-Sensitive Securities With These ETFs
The rate-sensitive space fell out of investors’ favor to start 2015 as the Fed gave signals of dialing back its low interest rate policies soon. Though the Fed still holds …
Read More Jim Rogers: Invest In Freedom And Hard Assets
Famed author and contrarian investor Jim Rogers spoke with Kerry Lutz of Financial Survival Network about the absurdity of central banks being run by clueless academics. He says that most …
Read More Why The Dollar Is Rising As The Global Monetary Bubble Craters
Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for …
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EC Mortgage REITs Still Trading Below Book Value… And Still A Bargain
As a value investor, I’m a little frustrated these days. There is virtually nothing cheap anywhere in the public markets. Stocks are expensive, trading at cyclically-adjusted price earnings ratios higher than those …
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