Hyperinflation is a rare phenomenon that requires the complete collapse of a currency. The US is "a…

But the cumulatively strength of the industry to stay in the green h…

This chart from Cullen Roche uses the famous Kalecki equation, which shows where corporate profits …

 Back in the summer, we highlighted this chart from Thornburg Investment Management, which sho…

Per Cullen Roche, rail traffic growth has hit a 7-month high. Shipping of commodity products across…

Rail tends to be a reliable gauge of the overall economy, given that various commodities and indust…

Rail traffic is seen as a great gauge of the economy, since it represents moving goods that people …

Highest 12 week moving average in rail traffic since 2011. twitter.com/cullenroche/st…Rail = the re…

Copying Buffett as an investor - while impossible for a number of practical reasons, mostly involvi…

Thornburg's study notes that "nominal returns are a misleading driver of an investor's investment a…

And then also, if you aggregate the various regional manufacturing surveys (from the regional Fed b…

Leverage can be used as a sentiment indicator because it is related to investor confidence. Current…

What they really want is risk free income. And that usually comes from the US government as a funct…

"After ?ve years of persistent debt pay-down by households, the U.S. private sector deleveraging cy…

The effect of QE on commodities (if any) vanished earlier than for equity markets. During each of t…

This is somewhat troubling. There's an idea out there that big, systemically important financial i…

In my mind, though, this doesn't matter much. It would matter, if Californians relied on almonds as…

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 1.1% in September 2013, down from 1.3% in August, acco…

There are variations, but the gist is this: An investment of $10,000 in 1970 would be worth $399,91…

"In fact, [your investment portfolio] doesn’t have to do half of the things that Wall Street says i…