Posted by kdadmin on December 1st, 2014
Let’s consider President Hollande’s current economic policies: Raise taxes to record-high levels. Target these taxes primarily at those people who make a considerable amount of money and/or those people trying to start/run small businesses. Create a HUGE and ESCALATING number of pensioners, retiring in their mid 50’s, who are dependent…
Posted by kdadmin on November 21st, 2014
I like charts because they can reduce complex financial rhetoric down to a single, ten second glance. Have a look…
Posted by kdadmin on November 10th, 2014
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” wrote Charles Caleb Colton in his horribly titled Lacon, Or, Many Things in…
Posted by kdadmin on October 23rd, 2014
Fittingly, it’s been a wicked two weeks in the October earnings season. I’ve heard or read everything from “it’s the…
Posted by kdadmin on October 14th, 2014
Black Swan events are completely unpredictable, revolutionize the venue in which they occur, and are rationalized with hindsight after the…
Posted by kdadmin on October 10th, 2014
Think back to the irrational days of high school. Remember those awkward, hormonal days when everything was the most-important-thing-in-the-world-at-this-particular-moment-oh-my-god-as-if-no-way? So…
Posted by kdadmin on October 2nd, 2014
Imagine this: You are sitting in a quiet, elegant, first class section of a bullet train from Zurich to Lucerne,…
Posted by kdadmin on September 25th, 2014
And we’re down. The short term options markets are a fun place to track the market sentiment. Yesterday, for example,…
Posted by kdadmin on September 23rd, 2014
During market selloffs, I like to watch the last thirty minutes of the trading session. Sometimes there can be clues…
Posted by kdadmin on September 22nd, 2014
The S&P 500 was just at record highs. The P/E Ratio is just over 20, the average is 16. So,…
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Posted by kdadmin on August 16th, 2014
On day eight of my trek through western Austria, I found myself in Hallstatt, a tiny town stubbornly etched into…
Posted by kdadmin on August 11th, 2014
Remember playing on the teeter totter when you were a child? The best part was going up so quickly that…
Posted by kdadmin on August 1st, 2014
As if to underscore my Wednesday blog post, The Seven Year Itch, the market plummeted just shy of 2% the…
Posted by kdadmin on July 30th, 2014
If you’ve been in a long term relationship, you’ve probably heard of The Seven Year Itch. Supposedly, around year seven,…
Posted by kdadmin on June 26th, 2014
Let’s talk about speeding. You’re much more apt to speed on a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere than…
Posted by kdadmin on June 9th, 2014
I think we’ve milked high yield bonds for about as long as I’d like. More and more the phrase, “Pigs…
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