If you spend five decades following the markets, as Bob Farrell did in his Chief Market Analyst role at Merrill Lynch, you get to know a thing or two about a thing or two. His “10 Market Rules to Remember” are a must-read for any investor and I am reminded of one of them as […]

If a tree falls in the forest, but no one cares because: the whole forest is on fire, does it make a sound? The answer is a definitive “no”, judging by how the second quarter GDP number was received this week. The number was stark – a 9.5% contraction in economic activity from the first […]