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What could have been a good week in the US after several good economic reports was spoiled by worsening debt troubles in Europe. See my newsletter posted today for more details. For the week, the market lost 3%, high quality bonds lost 1.1%, gold lost 3%. The dollar...

I just uploaded the latest newsletter that I think you will find has both some interesting takes on the investment world right now and some good income ideas.

Today was a repeat of yesterday - good economic news on unemployment claims in the US, more bad news on European interest rates. Right now, European news wins, hands down. The major averages dropped about 1.5% give or take a little and it was not worse because of a...

While the economic news here is fairly good, the elephant in the room is the European debt markets. I will have much more on this in the newsletter. It has gotten delayed by my fall vacation and my back going out today. I am having trouble sitting today so it is...

I'm back from vacation and just about caught up. I will try to get the Nov newsletter out tomorrow. Vacation was far from restful for my body, as we were hiking in the Rockies between 7,000 and 10,500 feet, sometimes through a foot of snow. But, it was very restful...

I will be out of the office until 11/15 so they were likely not be any posts here until I return unless is significant enough to demand a comment. Thanks.

It was a party in stock markets here and in Europe today in response first to the news that an agreement was reached whereby banks and other investors will take a 50% reduction in the value of their Greek bonds and that the EFSF will be leveraged up to buy Italian and...

The good feelings that many had developed over the last couple weeks about a package of reforms and bailouts for Greece, banks and European bonds took hits the last couple days on various news stories that a firm package might be only partially done by tomorrow's...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is much more open since he retired from the Fed. CNBC quoted him today saying the Euro is bound to fail because the culture differences between northern and southern Europe are just too great. He said the initial hope was...

CNBC is reporting that the UK said there will be no European finance ministers meeting tomorrow. That’s why the market is dropping after being up. There will still be a summit meeting of European leaders but this is a curious development especially after no...