A New Position for Jason Apollo Voss

Good morning folks! I am pleased to announce this morning that I have accepted a position as a Content Director for the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFAI).  The CFAI is the organization that awards the famous Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation...

Smoke or Fog?

  Since the beginning of July global stock markets have been self-immolating using the fires of fear.  A little bit of uncertainty and bad news was tinder for outright panic on many trading days.  In fact, since the 7 July, 2011 peak the S&P 500 has fallen...

A Recession Brought About by Fear Alone

  This post will be brief.  I wanted to point out that the over all health of businesses, consumers and governments is all pretty healthy.  However, fear that these various economic groupings are not as healthy as believed is actually planting the seeds for a...

Update on the Mood of the Stock Market

  Sorry to have been incognito for the last several days, but there just has not been much in the news worth commenting upon.  Additionally, I just have not sensed a change in the mood of the investment community’s collective consciousness. For...

Have the Financial Markets Turned Up?

  A brief post.  Last week financial markets saw wild, wild swings, triggering widespread panic and a lot of traffic to the What My Intuition Tells Me Now Blog.  In the midst of all of the noise I posted a, “Brief Update About Mood of the Financial...

Reports of Large Corporate Share Repurchases

  London’s Financial Times is reporting this morning that a number of U.S. corporations have engaged in large share repurchases this week.  Frankly, this soothes the soul as I have been complaining since late 2010 that businesses ought to be deploying their...