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• IN A HOLE 03-04-2016

  Two months ago, I offered some hope that drop we saw on the first day of 2016 was a good omen for the rest of the month and year ...

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• 4TH QUARTER 2015 - BOUNDARIES 02-03-2016

  Painting has been a human endeavor probably since we developed opposable thumbs. Traditionally, painting filled one of two purposes: either ...

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• DIGGING OUT 01-25-2016

  The eastern United States was buried in snowstorm Jonas this weekend, from 42 inches (more than a meter for our non-US friends) in West Virginia to (a ...

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• APRèS MOI LE DéLUGE 01-05-2016

  In more ways than one.We greeted the new year with an actual deluge, at least here in California, as the long-promised El Niño swooped in with ...

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• A YEAR-END THOUGHT 12-31-2015

  This week, my college basketball team visited southern California, and I was lucky enough to spend some time with them over the past few days. I ...

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• PATH TO PROGRESS 12-08-2015

  Zimbabwe is a country of 14 million people. I've never been there, and I can't recall if I've ever met anyone from there, but I'm sure that the vast ...

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• O PAIS DO FUTURO 11-30-2015

  Charles de Gaulle (photobelow)imperious, disdainful, utterly French (and venerated for it in France)noted 50 years ago that "Brazil was the country of ...

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• UNDER MY THUMB 11-20-2015

  As Mick Jagger sang (screeched?) 50 years ago. The song was about turning the tables on a domineering woman (The girl who once had me down).A bit ...

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• FAIRY TALES 11-19-2015

  The technology bubble of the late 1990s is a distant memory for most investors, and an ignorance for the rest. But back then, companies were raising ...

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• PATRICIA 10-23-2015

  It's another beautiful day in Santa Monica: blue skies, a few high wisps of stratus clouds. But 1500 miles south of here is the strongest hurricane ...

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• I'M SWISS 10-13-2015

  No question, this has been a challenging year. Virtually every financial asset class is struggling. Stocks are down, bonds are down, gold is down, oil ...

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• URSA MINOR 10-02-2015

  The bears are stirring. Not yet rampaging, but there's a lot of red ink across most markets.Today's jobs report was weak. No honey-coating it, it was ...

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• 3RD QUARTER 2015 - GO WEST (AND EAST, NORTH AND SOUTH) 10-01-2015

  Humans have inhabited the earth for what is a mere blink of the eye. The Universe was formed around 13 Â billion years ago, the Earth 7 billion ...

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• YOGI 09-24-2015

  Baseball, more than any other sport, by far, has drawn its share of colorful characters. I don't know why that is, but it is.This week, we lost one of ...

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• DROP (IN THE BUCKET) 09-15-2015

  Markets will fluctuate, as Pierpont Morgan caustically observed. And "fluctuate" means down as well as up. Perhaps I, too, am being caustically ...

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• MAULED 09-11-2015

  Investors in Emerging Markets could be forgiven for feeling as if they've gone 15 rounds with Ronda Rousey (see below). Or, more like 3 years with ...

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• JOBS 09-04-2015

  Markets have taken today's employment release as evidence of a weakeningjobs market. A mere 173,000 net new jobs were added in August, below the ...

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• PICKING UP THE PACE 08-28-2015

  Lost amidst the market turmoil this week were a number of reports of a strengthening US economy. Consumer confidence soared last month, as did new ...

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• JOLT 08-25-2015

  Two weeks ago (13 August, No Panic (Yet)) I noted that the renminbi devaluation was officially described as a modest alignment with market forces, ...

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• LAND OF BORAT 08-20-2015

  I probably should not confess to enjoying Borat (full title:Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan), 86 ...

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• NO PANIC (YET) 08-13-2015

  Earlier this week, China devalued its currency 1.9% against the US dollar. On one level, this is not a big deal. China's currency has been ...

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• CRIMINALS IN DIAPERS 08-05-2015

  Japan grew from the (literal) ashes of the Second World War to become the second largest economy in the world by creating products we all wanted. Some ...

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• DRY HOLE 07-29-2015

  Southern California just had the wettest July on record, the Angels were rained out of a home game for the first time in 20 years, and we're all ...

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• HOT BIDDING 07-27-2015

  The housing recovery, from its worst downturn since at least the 1930s, has been steady, but much less robust than most had expected. There are many ...

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