The Bonddad Blog

No pictures or movies today. I'm just glad this week is over. I'll be on KTLK tomorrow morning for econ 101 with Johnny Wendell. I...

Let's take a look at multi-year charts to see how the markets are looking. As of this writing, the SPYs are at 85.9 Prices have moved th...

Paul Volcker was the last great Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He was presented with a terrible situation -- stagflation, or weak growth ...

On the dollar's weekly chart, notice the following: -- Prices have clearly broken through the multi-year downtrend -- All the SMAs are m...

This is a multi-year chart. Notice that it's dropping off a cliff. Also note the volume -- it's huge. The SPYs have dropped 42% ...

From the NY Times: Treasury officials say the just-passed $700 billion bailout bill gives them the authority to inject cash directly into ba...

I'll be on the BBC's World Have Your Say at noon CST.

There's a great article in today's WSJ which uses California as an example of what will happen to the rest of the US. This gives us...

On the weekly chart, note the following: -- Prices are below all the SMAs -- The 10 and 20 week SMA are both headed lower -- The 10 week SMA...

A look at the chart reveals a very bearish chart. -- Prices are below all the SMAs -- The shorter SMAs are below the longer SMAs -- All the ...

From the WSJ: As the U.S. economy entered into crisis mode in September, so did the retail sector, ramping up discounts and special offers t...

I say round 2 because this is the first step of a coordinated effort by all the central banks in the world (or at least the really big ones)...

On the weekly CRB chart, notice the following: -- Prices are below all the SMAs -- The 10 and 20 week SMA are nose-diving -- The 10 week SMA...

On the SPYs, notice the following: -- Prices are below the 200 day SMA -- All the SMAs are moving lower -- The shorter SMAs are below the lo...

From Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve will create a special fund to purchase U.S. commercial paper after the credit crunch threatened to cut o...

From the NY Times: The crisis that began as a made-in-America subprime lending problem and radiated across the world is now circling back ho...

On the yearly chart, notice the following: -- Prices rallied from the end of October to March of this year as a reaction to the credit crisi...

I'll be on KTLK tonight from 9-10 CST to talk about this situation.

Wow. What a day. Let's look at this from the yearly chart to put it in complete perspective: On the SPY's note the following: -- P...

I've got jury duty today. I'm guessing they probably won't pick me (I'm a lawyer, I've got a masters degree and I'm...