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Carmen Reinhart: Don’t Discount Cyprus
Harvard University professor of economics Carmen Reinhart, co-author with Kenneth Rogoff of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly was on hand with CNBC’s Simon Hobbs and Melissa Lee yesterday commenting on the Cyprus situation....
- Posted March 22, 2013
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Ameritrade Clipped Me for $38 Again
A big source of aggravation for me is Ameritrade's policy...
- Posted March 30, 2020
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International Seaways Added
The oil tanker companies were in the middle of a...
- Posted March 25, 2020
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Going Off the Rails
Today I made wholesale changes to the SMA Portfolio; now...
- Posted March 23, 2020
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The Cure Might be Worse Than the Disease
The quote from the illuminating article above is relevant to...
- Posted March 22, 2020
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Ameritrade and Onerous Reorganization Fees
this is a warning to Ameritrade customers. Be congnizant of...
- Posted March 20, 2020
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Markets Unraveling
Coronavirus fears have created a contagion of panic on Wall...
- Posted March 19, 2020
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The End of the SMA Portfolio
It's hard to do this, but this brutal blitz krieg...
- Posted March 17, 2020
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Ameritrade Clipped Me for $38 Again
A big source of aggravation for me is Ameritrade's...
- March 30, 2020
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International Seaways Added
The oil tanker companies were in the middle of...
- March 25, 2020
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Going Off the Rails
Today I made wholesale changes to the SMA Portfolio;...
- March 23, 2020
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Is the Retirement Crisis Really a Crisis?
PBS Frontline recently presented a documentary called “The Retirement...
- April 25, 2013
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Alarming Chart of the Stock Markets of 1987 and 2012-2013
Several days ago I posted a chart showing the...
- May 22, 2013
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Gary Shilling’s Favorite Investment: 30 Year Treasuries
Larry Kudlow interviewed Gary Shilling last week. Shilling continues...
- June 23, 2011
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Based on a scale of 1 (major complacency) to 10 (extreme fear): Current and Selected Past Readings:

Date	Index	SMA Comment
3/23/2020	7.0	Coronavirus and oil price war panic investors to the highest level of fear since March 2009
12/26/2019	2.3	Lowest level of fear in nearly two years (January 2018)
12/21/2018	6.7	Raised fears likely setting up a buying opportunity
1/11/2018	1.8	Unusually low fear could mean we're near the top in valuations
1/13/16	6.3	Terrible start to 2016 raised fears
10/3/11	8.5	A good tradable bottom (S&P 500 @ 1,085) based on lots of nonsense
3/9/09	7.0	Market bottom (S&P 500 @ 666); end of the world was nigh
10/27/08	8.8	Market had dropped 28% in 5 weeks, Paulson pulled out all stops to save Wall Street bankers
10/12/07	3.2	Market top (S&P 500 @ 1,562); worldwide housing bubble pricked