Monthly Archives: August 2011

Ok – so maybe there were no lions or tigers, but after the events of last week, if I saw a few walking down the street I’m not sure I’d have been shocked.  At least.

The Kim Kardashian wedding actually ended up being a nice reprieve from the horrible market news last week. Markets were awful in the U.S. as well as abroad.  Economic data was poor and policymakers have been.

4 straight days of stock market moves in excess of 4%, flip-flopping between up and down days.  That’s a record.  Monday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index was  down -6.66%...ominous.  Tuesday, up 4.74%. Wednesday, down.