From Rick Santelli's apparently not-so-spontaneous Chicago Tea Party rant (a shadow of CNBC's Jim Cramer whose "They Know Nothing" tirade against Ben Bernanke - over whom Cramer recently swooned - helped launch the Fat Cat Rant genre at the beginning of the bear market in 2007) to t ... Read more

Today, working on TradingMarkets 7 ETFs You Need to Know for Today, I noticed that the iShares Dow Jones Transportation Index ETF, IYT had made a move below the November lows. Nobody  pays attention to transportation stocks - except for Dow theorists and the market technicians who love them.& ... Read more

Trader and author of The Big Picture blog, Barry Ritholtz asked recently, "Here’s an interesting question: Are videos like this one more likely nearer to tops or bottoms?" He was refering to "Sooner or Later," what he called "video of the year" by a group calle ... Read more

First Blago, now Warren?  The series of scandals over the past several days involving the President Elect by one degree of separation or another has grown to include the outrage by many in his political base at the invitation of conservative, anti-gay rights pastor and best selling autho ... Read more

I've sometimes thought of liquidation that occurs during bear markets as akin to those old fables about the over-ambitious offering up their eternal souls for temporal glories.  I'm no liquidationist.  But to see so many of the once-mighty come to ruin as an almost direct result of their ... Read more

With the outgoing administration finally able to utter the phrase "recession", we have another crucial element in the sort of capitulation that we'll need before we see a rebound in mood.  As in all recoveries, the first step of the process lies in admitting there is a problem.  ... Read more

One of the golden rules of mood analysis is that major declines in social mood will always be accompanied by dramatic outbreaks of mass violence. While I had watched the growing protests in Thailand, I thought that there still needed to be an even greater spectacle of discontent before this be ... Read more

"Because markets do have moods." --George Soros, testifying before Henry Waxman's committee on the importance of adjusting margin requirements to counter market tendencies during bubbles, which were inevitable in his opinion.  November 13, 2008 George Soros was among a ... Read more