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Market Anthropology: Eyes Wide Open

Monday, May 9, 2011 Eyes Wide Open As a geologist, I can appreciate the fundamental underpinnings that make up the energy and metal components of the CRB Index. The arc of exploration, field-development and resource quality.  For the most part,…

Market Anthropology: Esoterica

Monday, January 13, 2014 Esoterica Lacking the requisite initials after our name, we are on occasion confined to spending some quality time looking and thinking about the markets from perspectives that some of our more “qualified” – yet quantitatively driven…

Market Anthropology: Ephemeral High

Friday, January 20, 2012 Ephemeral High It’s been a lonely start to 2012 – here in the bear’s den. Solitude has its virtues, but after a while your thoughts start to echo against themselves. Time, just like the elements, has…

Market Anthropology: Down Under

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Down Under Managing ones expectations in this market is something we all struggle with after being exposed to the juggernauts of the new millennium’s monetary masters.  To QE or not QE – remains the standing question. And although…

Market Anthropology: Draghi on Deck

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 Draghi on Deck One of the many challenges for participants today in navigating the macro-straits, is at times dismissing the conventional market wisdom for more counter-intuitive perspectives – and always keeping an open mind to where…