Doug Roberts

High Frequency Trading: Providing Value?

Thank you for the link to the Bloomberg article; it was very informative.

Main Street Down and Out?

I loved the graphs and concur with the analysis.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

The concern about "reasonable profits" probably comes from an errant story that has been floating around for more than a year. The story is about Nancy Pelosi and quotes her saying that she supports a 100% windfall profits tax on stock market trading profits - including that of retired persons. It has been labeled as fallacious by factcheck.org (try this link: www.factcheck.org/askf... ).

All Recessions Are Local

Very cool map! Thanks.

Businesses Advised to Walk Away

I like your analyses, but leave out your Iraq politics. It makes me doubt your logic.

Do Rising Prices Indicate Inflation?

I appreciate the reminder that the decline in housing prices is slowing inflation, even if not in CPI it will be in PCE.

Review: WSJ 2007 Forecasts

Hi Barry - Love the 2007 prediction, what's the 2008 prediction? - Doug

Can the November Market Predict the Election?

This guy is just flying his colors. Not only is there no apparent pattern in his table of data, but the reader has to guess his politics. 2000 was a "split decision"? The reader has to read to the end to find out that he differentiates between winning the election and winning the popular vote.