Roger Arnold is the chief economist for ALM Advisors, a Pasadena, Calif.-based money management firm specializing in income-generating portfolios. Concurrent with his other business responsibilities, Arnold was a radio talk show host for 15 years. He focuses on behavioral economics and chaos theory, better known as the "butterfly effect." He explains the relationships between political, economic and social systems, and how they are all reflected in the financial markets -- stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and real estate.
| May 14, 2013
| 8:47 AM EDT
Sony (SNE) is up 7.5% in the pre-market. The driver appears to be Hedge Fund manager Dan Loeb's move to push the compan...
| May 14, 2013
| 8:21 AM EDT
The surge in Japanese Bond yields since the first of the month which appears to have been triggered by the US Fed's stat...
| May 10, 2013
| 9:01 AM EDT
I continue to get many off site questions about gold. My opinion has not changed though. I think gold is experiencing a...
| May 09, 2013 | 6:20 PM EDT
They are repairing their balance sheets, though lending is not what it could be.
| May 07, 2013 | 11:00 AM EDT
It is important to understand that this level is not dictated by rating agencies, bond buyers, the Fed, Treasury or economic theories.
| May 04, 2013 | 2:00 PM EDT
Like obscenity, you'll know it when you see it.
| May 02, 2013
| 9:22 AM EDT
The BLS productivity report validates the economic slow down.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
Reduction ...
| May 02, 2013
| 7:11 AM EDT
Global economic activity slowed globally in March as indicated by the purchasing managers index reports for the worlds l...
| Apr 30, 2013 | 5:00 PM EDT
Insurance stocks keep slowly rising despite mounting fundamental economic and financial headwinds.
| Apr 26, 2013 | 9:30 AM EDT
Errors by two economists should cause austerity mavens to rethink their positions.
