Joshua M Brown

A Roundup of Reactions to the Jobs Number

This morning’s jobs report?  No es bueno.  It makes the November numbers we got in early December look even more manipulated in retrospect. Oil and stocks sold off in reaction, but gold actually staged a furious comeback off the early morning’s lows.  There’s a lot more to the report than the number itself.  Here are…

Three Ring Currency Circus: China, Japan and the US

Welcome to the Three Ring Currency Circus: Central bankers as ringleader, metals and energy prices as the strong man, China as barely-tamed lion, Japanese stuffed in the clown car and the US taxpayer as the guy who cleans up after the elephants.