Daily Archives: October 18, 2017

Flattening curve: ticking clock on this over-extended cycle

As the stock market parties like it’s early 2000, a historically reliable indicator of economic weakness, the yield curve, continues to raise alarm in North America.  The spread between 2 and 10 -year US Treasury yields reached a new cycle … Continue reading

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Tulip Mania revisited

We watched the recently released film Tulip Fever last night.  The main plot focuses on two pretty sexy love stories, but the more interesting backdrop is the speculative mania that swept Holland in the 1600’s known as Tulip Mania.  Here … Continue reading

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