Jack the Pipper

A few headlines I saw this morning – have a look: Swiss franc rises towards parity vs dollar

Buy the rumor sell the news? The Australian dollar is sharply higher again today against the buck–which is taking on the chin once again.

I’m so tired…I stayed up late reading last night….falling asleepppp at the keyboardddd….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

The Bank of England last week made comments regarding some recent weakness in the British pound. It was seen as a potential boost to the UK economy as they’d love to resuscitate what external demand for their exports,

There have been much cryptic and not so cryptic comments of late from Federal Reserve Bank speakers. Some are implicitly calling for rate hikes sooner rather than later to mop up all the mess of money excess

Greater‐than‐expected confidence numbers again come out of Europe. The status relative to historical numbers can be seen

Talk about fundamental disconnect–yikes! Traders are all over the Japanese yen–it is the soaring against all comers. Some traders are eyeing the 85 level, an area not seen since 1995.

Mr. Orwell, the Ministry of Truth would like to see you… “Demonstrating the repeated abuse of language by the government and by the media in his novel, Orwell shows how language can be used politically to deceive and manipulate people

Here we sit with nothing but blue skies ahead. Kind of reminds me of the popular song of the same name (I enjoy the Frank Sinatra and Willie Nelson versions of Blue Skies).

Quiet so far this morning in front of the Federal Reserve Bank’s pronouncement on all things monetary due out later this afternoon. We wait to hear how Mr. Bernanke & Co. will decide to save us from ourselves yet again.