Friday, February 25, 2011

Manage Stress

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I get Tweeted by the St. Louis Fed, which is a great repository of data, some of which goes into the newsletter.  This morning, they tweeted a 1 year graph of something called the St. Louis Financial Stress Index (STLFSI).  I expanded it out to 5 years. 

Looks like financial stress is in a bearish Head & Shoulders pattern or put another way, all is fine.  Nothing to see here, move along.  This begs the question of Ben Bernanke... Why Ben, do you feel the need to keep bailing us out?  Why?  All's good, see?  Stress is in a bearish H&S.  No silly, this is not real analysis.  I am having fun on a Friday.