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Athanasios Orphanides: Cyprus Precedent Major Blow to European Union
The latest tempest in a teapot, tiny Cyprus, which amounts to 0.2% of the economic output of the European Union, roiled markets early this week when a proposal was floated to tax depositors in their undercapitalized banking...
- Posted March 20, 2013
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Jeremy Siegel: Lower Euro is the Last Best Hope
Bloomberg’s Betty Liu interviewed professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and financial author Jeremy Siegel regarding the European crisis which has been weighing on stocks. Siegel said one of the biggest problems in Europe...
- Posted July 30, 2012
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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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Marathon Oil Increased
Today cash in the SMA Portfolio was used to increase...
- Posted March 6, 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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The Cure Might be Worse Than the Disease
The quote from the illuminating article above is relevant...
- March 22, 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