Category Archives: MN Gordon

Credit Market Killing Machine

Yields on the 10-Year Treasury Note remain below 2 percent.  Interest rates this low are extraordinarily abnormal.  They indicate credit markets are feeble.  Moreover, despite the Feds efforts to suppress interest rates, these ultra-low yields may be hurting the economy … Continue reading

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How to Spot a Stock Market Inflection Point

Saving for retirement these days is a tall order.  It certainly hasn’t been like the good old days during the 1980s and 90s when you could blindly dollar cost average into a no load index fund and watch it rise … Continue reading

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Davos Hootenanny and Salvation Call

Despite the reformers endless efforts to encircle mankind, some persist beyond the broad extent of their casted net.  In the backwaters of the Republic, for instance, the distant rumble and flicker of Saturday night hootenannies still befall yonder the mighty … Continue reading

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The Stock Market, Explained

Despite an abundance of risk, the stock market continues to climb a wall of worry.  Obviously, with the European debt crisis, China’s economic slowdown, and posturing from Iran, the stock market’s rise defies all logic.  With all the known hazards … Continue reading

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