Market Curiosities
Federal Reserve Bank or System?
Last week will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous weeks in financial history. History was made and precedents were set and no where will the effects last longer than in the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve System was set up in 1913 in order to create a method for which [...]
read more »Market Meltdown History Lesson
For those of you that are new to investing or haven’t experienced financial meltdowns like the one we’re seeing currently, I thought I’d write up a post on a somewhat similar situation which arose about twenty years ago. Contrary to what it may have seemed like the last 10 years, our capital markets are happy [...]
read more »Super Bowl Indicator
It seems a lot of “market curiosities,” or stock market urban legends, tend to revolve around beginning of the year happenings. I guess that’s because we’re all looking for an edge or some kind of crystal ball to reveal to us what will happen to our money as the new year unfolds. Here’s one that’s [...]
read more »Presidential Elections and the Stock Market
Super Tuesday is coming up in a week and this year’s presidential elections are heating up. With all sorts of worries about the markets and the greater economy, can history enlighten us on what to expect? Maybe it can even tell us who to vote for!
Keynesian economics was first postulated in 1936 and became widely [...]
The Santa Claus Rally
Are the markets cyclical? Is society always doomed to repeat itself? It would seem that simple human nature and our fascination with using regressive analysis to predict future performance would almost mandate such behavior in the markets. We’ve all heard the old saying, “Sell in May and Go Away.” A few months ago, I posted [...]
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