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From the ISM: "Manufacturing activity continued to decline at a rapid rate during the month of December. The decline covers the full br...

Welcome back to the first full week of the new year. I hope everybody had a happy and safe holiday season. Let's jump right into the f...

It's new years eve. Being a self-employed person I have learned I have an incredibly understanding boss who is giving me the rest of th...

Click for a larger image Notice the following on the weekly chart: -- All the SMAs are moving lower -- The shorter SMAs are below the longer...

Click for a larger image The SPYs are still in a questionable position. -- Prices are below the downward sloping trend line -- The SMAs and ...

From Bloomberg: Home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined at the fastest rate on record, depressed by mounting foreclosures and slumping sales....

Wherein I argue with myself .... One of my central ideas of the current downturn is employment will experience about 6-9 months of terrible ...

Click for a larger image Let's start with the long end of the curve. From September through December, the TLTs were trading in a slight...

Click for a larger image Notice the following: -- Prices have not moved above the downward sloping trend line that started in October -- The...

From Bloomberg: U.S. retailers face a wave of store closings, bankruptcies and takeovers starting next month as holiday sales are shaping up...

You'd think I'd get tired of writing that headline. But not with the current information we have on the market. Let's start wi...

Like last week, this week is a short week. There is new years eve on Wednesday and New Year's day on Thursday, meaning Friday is all bu...

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I and Mr$. Bonddad have a ton of work to do before we have our first Christmas dinner with family at our house. ...

Click for a larger image Notice the prices are way above the trend channel that lasted for most of nine months. That's a big deal Click...

Actually -- it's yesterday's market, but who's counting? Click for a larger image One of the big events yesterday is prices brok...

Mr$ Bonddad here, Bonddad has picked up Daddybonddad up from the airport for holiday festivities. He'll be back in the morning.

I'll be on KTLK at 2:30 CST to talk about the economy.

From the WSJ: Today's investors, too, are surveying a stock-market collapse and a wave of Wall Street failures and scandals. Many have h...

Above is a video from this week's Barron's. Essentially, people are seeing a modest recovery but nothing to write home about. The ...

Let's take a look at a few charts to get the ball rolling. I'm going to start with the IWMs. This is the ETF tracking stock for th...