War Drums? Imagine The Real Thing!

If you think today's stock market plunge was bad, imagine what would happen if war actually happened! We wiped out about a month's worth of gains today!

Stocks, Crude Oil Barrel Obliviously Higher

This is going to bring on another recession if it continues into the summer. There's no reason to think it won't, either! This smells just like 2008 again, and not one lesson has been learned! But with a Fed that is back-stopping risk and encouraging bubble again, and a President that is sinking us into a quagmire of debt and even more "humanitarian" wars, its not hard to see where this is going to lead. It won't be pretty.

Crude oil -- $111.65 and counting

Stocks - amazing that Bernanke and Wall Street don't perceive the bubble

Wars and Rumors of Wars

Is turmoil in Egypt, and the possibility of it spreading thrhough the Arab world and the Middle East, spooking the financial markets? Sure looks like it! This is apparently not merely a question of quant trading, as had been earlier thought.