The Debate We Should Have Seen – Ep. 198
* I'm going to use today's podcast to offer my take on last night's Presidential Debates * Which certainly did not live up to all of the hype and expectation * But the airwaves today are filled wi...
27 Sep 201634min
No Alien Invasion And No Rate Hike – Ep. 197
* Aliens didn't invade the Earth, and the Federal Reserve didn't raise interest rates * If you remember, I was pegging the probability of each at roughly the same * True to form, the Federal Reser...
21 Sep 201627min
Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don’t – Ep. 196
* This morning the Federal Open Market Committee began its 2-day meeting, where they're supposedly going to discuss raising interest rates for the second time * We're going to get the official annou...
21 Sep 201638min
Hedge Fund Billionaires Finally Calling Out The Fed – Ep. 195
* We got a lot of economic data released today, most of it bad, and most of it worse than expected * What I did not expect was that the market shrugged it off * Initially, there was a little react...
15 Sep 201627min
Fed Cavalry Charges To Market’s Rescue Ep. 194
* Today was a day of damage control for the Federal Reserve * It almost seems like whenever they discuss the possibility of a rate hike, they're really launching a trial balloon * They want to gau...
13 Sep 201626min
Markets Rattled by Rate Hike Possibility – Ep. 193
* We had widespread selling in the markets today; it was real carnage across the board * Everything went down except the U.S. dollar * The Dow Jones was down 394 points - about 2% * That wasn't...
10 Sep 201633min
Data Dependent Fed Ignores Bad Data – Ep. 192
* Last week on Thursday we got that much weaker than expected ISM Manufacturing number, which didn't get a lot of attention because it came out a day before the jobs number which cast a pretty big sha...
7 Sep 201638min
It’s Not Bad News Until The Fed Says It’s Bad – Ep. 191
* On Friday we got the Non-Farm Payroll report and, of course, this jobs report is the most important ever * Because it was going to determine whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates...
3 Sep 201631min
