Archive for October, 2009

  • Twitter Courtesy
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 31st, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Comments: 0

    Some lighter faire for the weekend. I would like to take a moment to call out to all my Twitter friends and anyone else who might read this blog and also uses Twitter. In real world social interactions, rudeness and conduct of a less than gentile manner, is not generally tolerated. This is a good [...]

  • Too Big to Fail and The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 29th, 2009 at 9:25 pm, Comments: 0

    A year or so ago in the aftermath of the Lehman Bros failure as we stood on the precipice of economic Armageddon, our then Secretary of the Treasury came before the people and said that if we didn't rescue a group of firms in the next few days huge cracks would open up in the [...]

  • Can the Black Market Save the USD?
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 28th, 2009 at 12:52 am, Comments: 0

    Odd question indeed but maybe more to it than would be intuitive. The US Dollar (USD) has taken a huge hit over the last year and talk of it losing it's status as the worlds reserve currency is on the rise. Whether the Russians, the Chinese, the Opec members, or even the Venezuelans all the [...]

  • Summers Has No Doubts
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 22nd, 2009 at 7:54 am, Comments: 0

    I am getting a tad irritated at the advisers the President is surrounded by. I thought Mr. Obama would have better sense than his predecessor, but alas, that does not appear to be the case, at least where economic policy is concerned. What is the burr in my saddle you might ask after that opening? [...]

  • The Fed for Fun and Profit
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 11th, 2009 at 11:31 am, Comments: 0

    If you have followed my commentary you know I am an avid "Fed Watcher", and that I believe the actions of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) have been both ill conceived and ill timed due to a bias towards inflation fighting. Even in the statements of it's chairman and members espousing the need to [...]

  • Jobless Recovery?
    Aiki14 Market Sense, October 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Comments: 0

    So you hear the term "Jobless Recovery" in the News, I want to take a look at the concept. The first thing that comes to my mind is the term is an oxymoron. After a little thought I think it is necessary, in order to have a meaningful discussion on the topic, to separate the [...]