The Bonddad Blog

I'm in Austin riding out the storm (isn't there an REO Speedwagon song in there?) so I don't have any pictures. I'll be bac...

Tomorrow morning at 7:30 PCT I'll be on KTLK for at least half an hour (and probably and hour) to talk about the last week's happen...

In the previous thread a commenter noted: your ideological opposition to the idea of govt taking over banks is, i think, blinding you to the...

The entire statement is here. Let's look at the speech in more detail We have acted on a case-by-case basis in recent weeks, addressing ...

Barry at the Big Picture on the latest short selling BULLSHIT. And this is complete and total BULLSHIT.

From the WSJ: The federal government is working on a sweeping series of programs that would represent perhaps the biggest intervention in fi...

From Bloomberg: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke are considering a new plan to address the cred...

On the daily chart notice the following: -- The general trend since the end of August is down -- All the shorter SMAs are heading lower -- T...

This is a chart of the IWMS -- the ETF that tracks the Russell 2000. It's a great proxy for the market's risk appetite in equities....

From the WSJ: The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase. Lingering hopes that the damage could...

From the WSJ: The world's major central banks banded together Thursday to flood global money markets with massive amounts of U.S. dollar...

From the NY Times: Washington Mutual, the struggling savings and loan, has been working on several efforts to save itself, including a poten...

A few days ago I noted that 120 was an important technical level. When prices moved below that level we needed to fine other technical leve...

From CNBC: - $200 billion for Fannie Mae [FNM 0.42 -0.061 (-12.68%) ] and Freddie Mac [FRE 0.26 --- UNCH (0) ]. The Treasury ...

From Reuters: U.S. federal regulators recently called a number of banks asking if they would consider buying Washington Mutual Inc (WM.N) sh...

First, please see the article I wrote yesterday on AIG, titled "Is AIG Too Big To Fail?" The short version is, well, yes it is. ...

Earlier today I noted that prices had moved below 120 which is a technically important level. Prices increased from below the 120 level to ...

From Bloomberg: A collapse of American International Group Inc., the insurer seeking to raise as much as $80 billion, would have consequence...

Amidst all of yesterday's turmoil two key pieces of economic data were lost. The Empire State index and Industrial Production. Why is t...

The SPYs broke below 120.