Ball of Confusion

Keith Schneider | March 12, 2012

So, round and round we go,
Where the world's headed, nobody knows

- The Temptations

Now that the Greek debt crisis has been finally solved, the result seems even more ambiguous than ever.  Most Greek sovereign debt bondholders have agreed …


Lent Money Celebration

Keith Schneider | March 4, 2012

Not ones to miss out on an opportunity to party, some Grecians took off from full time riot duty protesting newly implemented austerity measures, to celebrate “Clean Monday” festival that marks the beginning of Lent. Some of those inclined to …


Split Personality

Keith Schneider | February 12, 2012

This week the Republican presidential primaries produced yet another front runner, uber conservative Rick Santorum. His position on same sex marriage, birth control, gays in the military, food stamps, health reform, women’s rights, and cell phone usage by the uninsured …


Leave it to the Ladies

Keith Schneider | February 5, 2012

Protesting “ongoing human rights violations”, feminists played topless street hockey in Switzerland to stop the IHF (International Hockey Federation) from having its world tournament hosted in Belarus, Russia. As they take their bras off, I take my hat off to …


Year of the Dragon

Keith Schneider | January 29, 2012

This week kicked off the Chinese New Year; the Year of the Dragon. The Dragon is revered and considered the most important, lucky and prosperous of all signs in the Chinese zodiac.

Dragon fire fueled by cheap natural gas could …


Rogue Wave Swamps Shorts

Keith Schneider | January 22, 2012

Despite Google's (GOOG) 50 + point decline and Apple's (AAPL) 3 % drop from Thursdays intra-day highs, the NASDQ 100 ( QQQ) closed on a new weekly high not seen  since the market crash in 2008. Economists, Elliot Wavers and …


Debt Rating’s Chopped

Keith Schneider | January 16, 2012

Ever since the French Revolution began in 1789, a time when the aristocracy lost its glamour and Marie lost her head, the French masses have steadily improved their standard of living.  These days, mandatory paid vacation time in France  (and …


Pirates of the Arabian

Keith Schneider | January 8, 2012

The U S Navy rescued an Iranian fishing vessel from pirates (Although Captain Jack Sparrow is still at large) this week, keeping the tensions between Iran and the West on a simmer rather than on a boil, where it was. …


2011- Year of the Tail Chase

Keith Schneider | January 2, 2012

The key US stock Indexes, after a year of extreme volatility basically ended unchanged depending on which index you want to compare your performance to. It certainly was the strangest, bumpiest ride to nowhere that I can remember.  Masochists should …


Republicans Get Trumped

Keith Schneider | December 26, 2011

by Keith Schneider

The stock market recovery this past week of almost 4% and 4 consecutive days up was mostly at expense of the Republican Party. A lot of good news erupted from improved housing starts, lower unemployment, increased consumer …