Charting Stocks

The yield on 3 month treasury bills remain at lows not seen since the great depression.

Hillary Clinton has asked China to keep buying U.S. debt and to work with Washington in combating the global economic crisis. Clinton was speaking Sunday before leaving Beijing at the end of a four-nation tour of Asia — her first overseas trip since taking office.
Clinton urged that buying treasuries would be in China’s interest as [...]

The credit worthiness of the United States is deteriorating rapidly and may lead to a credit rating downgrade.
In our 2009 forecast, we mentioned that the United States may be downgraded this year.  The trillions of dollars being pumped into a dying financial system will have its consequences. The treasury is expected to issue $2 trillion [...]

Excellent documentary on the debt that the US government has accumulated. The debt will be impossible to pay.

Marc Faber: “In the US, we have a totally new school (of economics), and it’s called the Zimbabwe School.”

2009 will be a year of complete destruction for the US economy. 5 Million will lose their jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial average will break below 6,000. Municipalities will fail. Insurers will fail. The unemployed and foreclosed American population will take to the streets and begin rioting. The Greatest Depression is upon us.
Sound far fetched? [...]

Credit default swaps on treasuries hit another record. It now costs 66 basis points (0.66%) to buy protection against a US Government default on its treasury bonds. The cost has risen over 100 times the  January 2007 level of .06 basis points (0.006%) .
Credit default swaps (CDS) are a kind of insurance contract that can [...]

Today’s treasury auction outlined the panic that still dominates the financial markets. $36 Billion in T-Bills were auctioned off today which gave a 0% yield. Why would anyone be willing to make an investment in which they are guaranteed to make nothing? The one word answer is “Fear.”

Because treasury bills are direct obligations of the [...]

I noticed a couple of comments (OK just one) regarding inflation/deflation and how to know which is dominant. To get the answer I like to use a simple inflation/deflation indicator that I first learned about by reading John Murphy’s Intermarket Analysis book. I highly recommend reading this book to anyone who’s interested in charting stocks [...]

At $8.5 Trillion already pledged by the US Government, the 2008 bailout of the financial sector has become largest single expenditure ever assumed by the US Government (Or any government). Just how large you ask? We’ve now exceeded the total cost of World War 2, The New Deal, Korean War, Iraq Invasion, Vietnam, The Louisiana [...]