What are your 'indefensible' spending items? And what would you have if you saved instead?

A host of commodities ranging from agricultural to energy products to industrial metals have been facing pricing threats from a rising dollar.

There is additional food inflation going on currently in a wide variety of areas — and this is the kind of inflation that affects the majority of people directly, and one which the Fed seems a bit oblivious about in their reported price inflation data.

Yesterday a fresh wave of selling hit the markets. This did not surprise us. We are overwhelmingly short this market.

The investing public tends to place a great deal of faith in the forecasts of economists. To be frank, I am not entirely sure why. An overwhelming majority missed the impact that well-documented declines in real estate were having on the economy in 2007.

NFTRH 278 said this about agricultural commodities funds DBA, CORN and JO: “DBA was sold from the brokerage portfolio due to its over bought status last week, but CORN is still held because of a neat looking consolidation above the MA 50’s."