So far, the Apple insiders who have seen and heard stuff about this project are not giving it their blessing. They seem to have problem with the way things are played up a bit. Wozniak, in particular, has been publicly critical. That’s too bad, Woz – it’s not a documentary and people expect to be…

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Just as the blood and guts of both the bond and stock markets were beginning to sploosh over the railings, Captain Bernanke and his surrogates fired a shot across the tape, calling a halt to the slaughter. In what could only be described as a coordinated counter-offensive, the FOMC’s doves did a flyover, dropping their…

Josh here – my friend and CNBC Fast Money co-host Stephen Weiss has written a very insightful take on the market’s reaction to all this wonderful Fed Transparency. Weiss’s take is that we might have been better off had the Fed just done the taper and then told us about it after the fact –…

Jonathan Krinksy, technical analyst at Miller Tabak + Co, is out with an interesting statistic discussing just how aberrational the turmoil of this week has been. He notes that having a “down 95% day” wherein 95% of all trading volume is in declining stocks – happens very infrequently. And having a down 95% day follow a down…

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Mohamed El-Erian uses the term “handoffs” to describe the changes taking place around the world as various market forces and regimes take over from each other. In China, it’s the handoff between an infrastructure-based economy to a consumer-driven one, for example. Here in the US, we’re attempting a handoff from a Federal Reserve life-support economy…