Summary: With the VIX near its lows why are there two so very different sides to the same coin? For those unfamiliar with the Credit Suisse Fear Barometer it is another metric for gauging investor angst and expectation! Knowledge Is Power – Francis Bacon To the everyday stock market watcher the most commonly used metric for […]
The chart below should tell you much of what you need to know about the likely condition of the ‘wealth effect’ in China! Will any potential change in this so-called wealth effect cause investors in China (or anywhere else around the world) to pullback on commercial real estate investment in the United States? Wealth Effect: The […]
Back on April 17, 2015 I wrote an article here titled ‘What a stock market top might look like!‘ And while hindsight is 20-20 and the stock market is currently suffering through some difficult days, at the time of the above mentioned article the chart of the S&P appeared (at least to me) to be […]
(Article also appears at Global Economic Intersection here) While not a currency expert, there is little doubt that the Swiss National Bank surprise decision to abandon the 1.20 Swiss franc peg to the Euro will have significant market and economic implications! And in addition to the currency move, at the same time the Swiss Central Bank […]
For those who have been following the Bitcoin saga, the Q&A concerning the viability of this sovereign-currency alternative depends in no small measure on the belief of the general public in its value, reliability and long-term potential as a payment system! Let’s take a look back at two recent articles published here that at first […]
Very few real estate transactions are currently funded through Bitcoin and a limited number of firms currently honor it as currency, but… As Bitcoin continues to gain the confidence of the marketplace as a viable and reliable form of money, it seems destined to move closer to the mainstream of business! But first and potentially […]
