Daily Archives: December 14, 2011

A big wave of risk selling this week is hitting equities, commodities, gold and the Canadian dollar hard while capital has surged into bonds and the US dollar. The below risk-trade barometer captures these moves in a useful historical context. Source: … Continue reading →

Good discussion here on the need to hold capitalism accountable by forcing risk takers to take their losses with capital and personal risk in the system. Letting reckless players take excessive upside and escape the correcting downside is how we got the crash … Continue reading →

“Is there a global tipping point for frustration? Everywhere, it seems, people said they’d had enough,” Time Editor Rick Stengel said in a statement. “They dissented; they demanded; they did not despair, even when the answers came back in a … Continue reading →