by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 05 2011 | Blog
New York’s COMEX exchange has upped by 84% the amount of money that must be on deposit by speculators in order for them to borrow money to buy silver futures. This is just the latest rise in margin costs (i.e. borrowing costs) implemented by the COMEX since...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 05 2011 | Blog
Jobless claims creeped up a whopping 43,000 last week to a total of 474,000 last week according to U.S. Department of Labor data. This is the highest level of jobless claims since August, 2010. Because the data can frequently be volatile folks generally look at the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 04 05 2011 | Blog
I have to confess that I struggled with the title of today’s blog post. Let me begin to tell my story, and if any of you have any suggestions as to a better title, please feel free to leave it in the comments section of the blog. For centuries investors have...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 03 05 2011 | Blog
My regular readers might have noticed that I have not posted about the financial markets much in the last 10 days or so. My goal is to interpret the mass of news flow out there and deliver to you prescient analysis and commentary on the important news story of the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 02 05 2011 | Blog
While psychologically important, Osama bin Laden’s death in an Islamabad, Pakistan suburb early Sunday morning changes little. But perhaps there is a window of opportunity now for the United States to re-prioritize. Our efforts to negate the importance of al...
