My next trade

More to follow.

The time is now again

I woke up this morning to find a facebook friend request in my mailbox. It was from perhaps the first person I met when I moved to Minneapolis in 2002. I took her to a Rush concert at the Target Center. Vapor Trails tour. We hung out a few other times too. We lost touch eventually, I think I made an ass of myself in an email to her. Something like that.

Glancing over her facebook page, I see that she is engaged, and there's some talk on her wall about a wedding. The groom should be congratulated, I'd say it was a good catch.

Below is one of my favorite songs from 2002, the last palindromic year before the elder race returns. The bride-to-be might like it:

Quote of the day

From an article in the San Francisco Business Times:

[Wells Fargo CEO John] Stumpf told his audience of one potential Bay Area borrower who recently complained to him that the San Francisco bank wanted a personal guarantee on his business loan when Washington Mutual did not.

“Is Washington Mutual still around?” Stumpf said he asked the customer.

full article here

Equal Weight US Dollar Index

Here's a chart of the USD versus a basket of the six other major currencies (AUD, GBP, CAD, JPY, CHF, EUR):



Some downside, or sideways movement, now would not surprise me, but I do doubt we will see a real breakdown of the prevailing uptrend.