Finance Banter http://www.financebanter.com/ The Business Banter Work en-ca feed@financebanter.com Copyright 2012 Paul J. Nolte Nolte Notes for the week of January 30, 2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-the-week-of-january-30-2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-the-week-of-january-30-2012

Maybe it is just a sign of age or the fact that I try to listen to the economic ramblings of the Federal Reserve, but I’m getting confused.

]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:37:48 -0500 Paul J. Nolte Nolte Notes for January 23, 2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-january-23-2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-january-23-2012 How good are things? Judging by the financial markets, happy days are indeed here again

]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:11:09 -0500 Paul J. Nolte Nolte Notes for the week of January 16, 2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-the-week-of-january-16-2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-the-week-of-january-16-2012 It is as though the US markets (and economy) are channeling some Joe Walsh: “everybody’s so different, I haven’t changed”.

]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:02:51 -0500 Paul J. Nolte NOLTE NOTES - January 9, 2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-january-9-2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-january-9-2012 What is in the past won’t hurt you…or so the financial markets believe

]]> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:23:36 -0500 Paul J. Nolte Nolte Notes for January 2nd 2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-january-2nd-2012 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-for-january-2nd-2012 Happy New Year and good riddance to 2011!

]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:17:58 -0500 Paul J. Nolte NOLTE NOTES - December 19, 2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-december-19-2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-december-19-2011 Like a typical diva, even when it is not about Europe, it is about Europe. 

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The really big schew (as Ed Sullivan would have called it) that was the European meetings of the week just past, including special guest Tim Geithner to help cobble together an agreement that will, at one swoop of the pen, put all right with the financial system of Europe. 

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:15:41 -0500 Paul J. Nolte Nolte Notes December 5, 2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-december-5-2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-december-5-2011 The events of the past few weeks, culminating in the coordinated efforts of central banks around the world to devalue the dollar, boosting the Euro and flood the financial system (again) with liquidity, remind me of the Peanuts cartoon showing Lucy sitting in her “office” with the sign “the doctor is in”.

]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:43:05 -0500 Paul J. Nolte NOLTE NOTES November 14, 2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-november-14-2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-november-14-2011 The Ring of Fire has two references; the first is the region in the Pacific from just north of Australia, up the coast of Japan across to Alaska and down the US west coast. This area sees tremendous amounts of volcanic and earthquake activity. The second is a signature song by Johnny Cash.

]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:29:21 -0500 Paul J. Nolte NOLTE NOTES - October 24, 2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-october-24-2011 http://www.financebanter.com/article/nolte-notes-october-24-2011 It has been a painful process over the past few weeks, as learning new things is in general, watching Europe try to figure out how to solve their debt problem. France and Germany remain at the heart of the situation, as they remain the two most solvent countries of any size in the Eurozone.

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