With yesterday’s announcement of direct Fed ETF purchases, American free market capitalism officially died. Bye, Bye Ms. American Pie (chart).

The market bear is clearly out of his cave, but recent stock surges remind us that bulls don’t die easily.

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Stock Market Advice? Trust but Verify. Below, we verify our stock market advice with facts rather than fancy. Skepticism is

Below we look at trace routing principles to make common sense out of a senseless market. As of this writing,

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Below, we look at intelligent portfolios in a not-so-intelligent Fed backdrop of fragile and volatile market suffering. More importantly, we

Our markets crashed.  As exchanges open down today after the worst week of losses seen (in terms of speed and

Below, we look at bond market secrets and how we track yields (which move inversely to price) to consistently beat

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