Charting Stocks

This is Rep. Alan Grayson questioning Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez about the Fed’s market practices.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York trades U.S. government and select other securities with designated primary dealers, which include banks and securities broker-dealers. Weekly transaction, market share data and primary dealer lists are updated periodically. Much of [...]

When we wrote “Inflating a Bull Market,” we mentioned the inverse relationship between the US dollar and stock prices. In March, the US dollar peaked from overbought levels and began to decline. At the same time stocks bottomed from oversold levels and began to move up. The reason is simple – Stocks are priced [...]

The once over-sold stock market has rallied for the past couple of weeks. This rally, though fresh in all of our minds, is not much different in time, or magnitude, than the previous upward corrections throughout this bear market.

A few select quotes during the depression years of 1929 to 1931.
Notice the “Expert” opinions which convey optimism, the bank bailouts, government assurances, the Hoover (Paulson) plan,  and the deliberate attempt by the main stream media to manufacture consent for bailing out Wall St. Has anything changed?
“There is no cause [...]

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 [...]