Government Expenditures Adding To GDP

For those wondering “Davidson” has been saying this for a while….and here and here “Davidson” submits: Real GDP 3Q 2014 was revised higher than expected. More good news! I prefer to breakdown the components into that attributed to Government Expenditure & Investment vs. that from the Private Economy. I think it provides a clearer picture of what is occurring…

Dollar Soars On Divergence

The US dollar is beginning the New Year with strong gains against both major and emerging market currencies. The divergence between the US and the other high income countries has been underscored by comments from the BOJ’s Kuroda and ECB’s Draghi. The former discussed other tools that can be brought to bear to achieve the BOJ’s…

Top 5 Chinese Trends That Will Shape The Global Economy In 2015

Recently, China has been stepping up and making impressive moves. Its GDP, adjusted for purchasing power, is now bigger than the United States. It has been willing to step in and bail out countries on the outs, like Russia. And it has been capable of solving complex geopolitical problems through pure innovation and resourcefulness: Witness its approach to…

Learning From The Past, Part 2

<< Read Learning From The Past, Part 1 Photo Credit: PSParrot Happy New Year to all of my readers. May 2015 be an enriching year for you in all ways, not just money. This is a series on learning about investing, using my past mistakes as grist for the mill.  I have had my share…

Programming Your Odds

by Brandon Wendell, Online Trading Academy While teaching a Professional Futures Trader course in Kansas City several weeks ago, I was demonstrating a technique that can predict the morning reversal of the S&P 500 Index and the related futures contracts due to arbitrage opportunities. This is a technique that I have used successfully for years when I traded…

New Variable For Effective Demand Limit… Part 2

<< Read: Variables For An Effective Demand Limit To The Business Cycle Part 1 For those nutty readers that follow the effective demand story that I present on Angry Bear, today, the first day of 2015, marks a breakthrough. I just posted yesterday a model to expand the variables for assessing the effective demand limit upon production. Today…

EUR/USD Continues To Fall

The EUR/USD pair fell hard during the session on Wednesday, as it testing the 1.12 handle. This is an area where I would expect to see a little bit of support, but quite frankly I think we go down to the 1.20 region first, before possibly finding enough support to start bouncing again with significance. I think…