Archive for: October 2005

The King is going. Long live the King. We now know that Ben Bernanke will be the next Fed Chairman. His approval by the Senate is as close to a lock as you can get. This week we focus on …

Some things never go out of style, including good interviews. Let’s look back one year in time to Bob Prechter’s Theorist of October 2004. In it, he published an interesting interview he did with Chris Oliver, the Money Editor of …

Last year, as the Fed first began to raise rates, I made two observations. If the Fed does what they almost always do, they will raise rates higher and go longer than anyone at the beginning to the cycle believed. …

The back-to-back, 100-point swing in the Dow this week shows how much the markets are driven by human psychology. Humans behave in certain ways, and these behaviors are patterned. In the case of financial markets, these patterns are perfectly recorded …

The threat of avian flu has moved from the back burner to the front burner. Last week, we learned that U.S. scientists had recreated the virus that caused the Spanish flu epidemic that killed more than 40 million people in …

October begins major league baseball’s playoffs, an annual reminder that those ballplayers and teams who make it this far share two common traits: discipline and coolness under pressure. The John Smoltzes of the world (star pitcher for the Atlanta Braves) …