Does QE Really Work? The Evidence To Date

The market’s hopes and dreams for the next LSAP remain high. As gold inches higher, tail-risks priced out (expectations for extreme FX moves are considerably lower than sentiment would suggest), and US equity vol expectations (and put skews) are crushed; the equity market clearly remains ‘at a premium’ in its notional indices given what is sheer lunacy in earnings expectations going forward. The question every investor should be asking is not when [...]

NYT: The 2016 Election, Already Upon Us

Clockwise from top left: Nathaniel Brooks for NYT, Ozier Muhammad/NYT, Damon Winter/NYT, Patrick Semansky/AP, Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg

Clockwise from top left: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mark R. Warner, Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Elizabeth Warren.

DISTANT as it may now seem, with the Republican race dominating the news and President Obama sitting in the White House, the Democrats are not all that far from [...]

40% of Americans Are Now Independent. Independents Would Vote for Paul Over Obama

By Washington’s Blog

 While mainstream pundits desperately cling to their mantra that Ron Paul is “unelectable”, the numbers show a different story.

Gallup finds a record high-high 40%
of all Americans now identify as independents. This is higher than the
31% of Americans who identify as Democrats and 27% as Republicans.

And which candidate do independents like?

According to a new CBS poll, they like Ron Paul.

As Forbes notes:

In a head to head match up with incumbent President
Barack Obama, [...]

Three Quarters Of GOP Voters Do Not Support Romney

Mitt Romney’s polls seem stuck in the low to mid twenty percentile. As the weeks and months have passed Romney’s polling numbers seem steady in that range. There’s a reason for that. The conservative voters within the GOP do not support Romney for President of the United States.

That, dear reader, is why Herman Cain’s numbers have been skyrocketing

There are recent reports stating that Herman Cain is the candidate the Tea [...]