Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sanity Check

The Fed indicated today that it was likely to keep rates at an exceptionally low level until at least mid-2013. The market listened and did Ben's bidding. My take: the economy is teetering and recession is likely. In other words, whatever your strategy was yesterday, I don't think anything that happened today (between the market shooting up and the Fed announcement) should cause it to change.

Broken Money

The subtitle is Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better , and the author is Lyn Alden (2023). I feel like I hav...