Happy Anniversary, Bush Tax Cut Beneficiaries!
As of today, the Bush Tax Cuts have officially been in place for ten years. A lot has happened in the past decade. We’ve been embroiled in two wars, bombed a couple of other countries, expanded and popped a giant credit bubble, brought around a regime change in DC, turned said regime change on its […]
Weekend Reads
The weather may have warmed up this week, but stocks turned frosty as they took a plunge. Commodities continued their up and down performance while rumors began to swirl about the inevitability of QE3 in the face of a worsening European debt crisis. And how about that debt ceiling? The chaos will continue over the […]
Meat Markets in Free Fall Since April
While silver and crude price movements have been hogging the spotlight lately, meats have been quietly tanking since the beginning of April. What’s with the shift in momentum? Part of it is likely the general ‘risk off’ commodity sell off seen in May. But there are more involved supply/demand issues surrounding this sell off as […]
Weekend Reads
It’s the Friday before Memorial day, and things are rather dead in our corner of the world. Of course, we’re sort of workaholics, so we’re busy preparing the next sensational piece for publication, but we’re sure that most folks are already launching into their holiday. As we said earlier today, the office will be closed […]
ETFs v. Cash and Futures YTD
The past month has served as a prime example of why to invest in futures contracts instead of ETFs. Not only have ETFs continued their streak of underperforming futures contracts, but they expanded their rate of underperformance by at least a percentage point for each commodity. We still haven’t heard a good answer to our […]
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