by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 04 2011 | Blog
I just bought a brand new iPod Classic 160GB because I had completely filled up my old 80GB one with music. I am a big fan of the iPod because I am a big fan of having my immodest music collection with me wherever I may be. So I plugged my new iPod into my...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 06 04 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Loyal blog reader, Clint, asked a question yesterday about my 2011 Prediction for gold prices that I feel needs to be brought into the larger forum of the blog itself. Here is what Clint asked: “Hello Jason I have a question about your gold prediction....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 04 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
One of my continual beefs with our Western World and my criticisms of capitalism is our overemphasis on numerical and statistical methods in analysis. In fact, these two forms of analysis are so dominate that the word analysis has become a synonym for numerical and...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 04 04 2011 | News & Events
This morning I received news that Barron’s, that scion of the investment world, has reviewed The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth. While I consider the review to be only slightly positive, I am grateful to Gene Epstein and Michael...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 01 04 2011 | Blog
Department of Labor data for March shows that the U.S. economy created 216,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate fell to 8.8%. This compares to expectations by economists of 195,000 jobs created and no change in the 8.9% unemployment rate. Analysis: The...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 31 03 2011 | Blog
Department of Labor data show that weekly jobless claims fell by 6,000 last week to a level of 388,000. These data are notoriously volatile so the four-week moving average is a more reliable number and was up 3,250 to 394,250. Analysis: Both of the above...