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2006 November

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The Decline Begins

We try and tell you the truth in Market Mad. The fact is that the markets are Mad and the US market in particular is way overbought and overvalued. The stock market has had a great run over the last few months, but as the holiday season begins analysts are worrying that the traditional year-end […]

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Citi Issue Warning on Stocks

Citi Issue Warning on Stocks
Analysts at leading US investment bank Citigroup have issued a dramatic warning to clients to be wary about the current state of the stockmarket.
Authored by analysts Adrian Blundell Wignall and Alison Tarditi, it warns that there are “similarities with the 1986-87″ period leading up to the last big stockmarket crash.
Blundell-Wignall is […]

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Stocks to be clobbered next

The European think tank Europe2020 express the view that activity in the bond and share market was driven not my fundamentals but by electoral politics. A good example of what they see as political intervention was the miracle revision of the employment figures which saw the publication of a very bad figure for job creation […]

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Hacking Democracy

Hacking Democracy is on Google Video. On the eve of the election it might be worth remembering that the price of democracy is always eternal vigilance.

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Advice from a past President

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to […]

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Housing Bubble in Trouble

RealtyTrac (http://www.realtytrac.com/), the online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its August 2006 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 113,300 properties nationwide entered some stage of foreclosure during the month, a 22 percent increase from the previous month and an increase of nearly 50 percent from August 2005.  The report shows a national foreclosure rate […]