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.

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...
Insurance stocks keep slowly rising despite mounting fundamental economic and financial headwinds.
Errors by two economists should cause austerity mavens to rethink their positions.
A viable way to access working capital.
There will be much more academic attention focused on the relationship between sovereign debt levels and economic growth.
It defies logic why stocks have continued rising on this failed QE strategy.
| Apr 18, 2013
| 12:41 PM EDT
PG yesterday announced that it was extending the time it takes to pay its suppliers to 75 days from 45 but arranging for...
The message being sent to Europe is that you are on your own until after the elections.

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| Jun 18, 2013
| 10:33 PM EDT
Good piece by Niall Ferguson on how protests going on in Brazil & Turkey could hit next in France over the summer. ...
| Jun 18, 2013
| 6:31 PM EDT
Now up to 962--It flagged things on the way down. could be doing it again.

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