Strong whipsaw behavior in many commodities, as seen in Thursday's session, could be interpreted as markets becoming somewhat over-stretched in their willingness to seek out momentum among the high-beta assets.

In the past, a central banker was meant to be anonymous, quiet, hidden away somewhere so far in the background that the ordinary man wouldn’t know his name or recognize his face.

Clive Corcoran repeats his bullish stance towards the S&P 500 futures, with two previously mentioned qualifications.

Seventy-nine percent of household income growth since 2007 has come from government transfer payments. People earn less real money. They have less real money to spend.

What’s the real rate of inflation? It depends on how you figure it. The Labor Department shows consumer price inflation at barely over 2 percent.

The weekly chart for the USD/CHF pair shows that the Swiss currency continues to benefit from its status as the safe haven currency without equal as the flight out of the US dollar continues unabated.

The feds openly and explicitly try to cause inflation. Ben Bernanke made it very clear. He was worried about deflation. He practically made his career as a deflation expert.

Compounding is indeed the topic of this weeks article, but compounding not of interest but of inflation.

You can either listen to what the market is telling you or you can lose all you money.

Investors are still confident in US bonds.  Then again, investors were still confident in US houses in 2007, and still confident in US tech stocks in 1999.