The Bonddad Blog

Bonddad's $i$ter in law gave us a great present for Christmas. Each dog has their own blanket. And in the corner of each blanket is th...

From the Fed: Industrial production fell 2.0 percent in December, and declines were again widespread. Output was revised up in October, but ...

From FT: Intel declined to predict future sales in an uncertain economic environment on Thursday and warned of rapidly deteriorating margin...

From the WSJ: Highlights of Economic Recovery Plan Spending Energy $32 billion Funding for "smart electricity grid" to reduce wast...

Click for a larger image Notice the following on the weekly chart -- In the second half of last year prices rallied to technical resistance ...

Click for a larger image Notice there is technical support right around the 84 level. Prices moved through that level today, but bounced ba...

Bernanke made a speech on Tuesday to the London School of Economics. The opening line is especially important. However, although the subpr...

The Fed Released the Beige Book a yesterday. I paints a very grim picture of the economy. Here are some highlights: District reports indica...

From the WSJ: More than 2.3 million American homeowners faced foreclosure proceedings last year, an 81% increase from 2007, with the worst y...

Click for a larger image Notice the following on the weekly chart -- Prices fell hard after July, but appear to be consolidating -- All the ...

Click for a larger image There are some incredibly important points on this graph 1.) Note that 92 (line 1) provided incredibly strong resis...

From Bloomberg: Nortel Networks Corp., North America’s biggest maker of telephone equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S., a...

Click for a larger image Thanks to Calculated Risk for the chart From Bloomberg: Sales at U.S. retailers fell more than twice as much as for...

Click for a larger image Agricultural prices were in a strong rally from 2006 - 2008. Prices formed a double top in the first half of 2008,...

Click for a larger image Notice the following on the daily chart -- The SMAs are bunched together. The 10, 20 and 50 day SMA are less than ...

The TARP program has been extremely controversial. However, regardless of which side of the controversy you some down on, consider the foll...

I am a member of a Facebook group called Speaking of Taxes. I gave a presentation to the group last week. Here is a link. It lasts about...

Click for a larger image Notice the 7-10 year part of the curve is still very high. And.... Prices are really high relative to the last 5 y...

Actually, it's yesterday's market. And this is important so I'm going to keep this up and run the Treasury market charts in a f...

I am flying back to Houston today, so when the market closes I will be 30,000 feet above the ground. I will post this in the morning. See ...