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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • August 30, 2010
  • Chuck Osborne

Dog Days of Summer

This summer has been about as hot as I can remember. When it is this hot, you want to do what a dog would naturally do – slow down, find some shade and take it easy. This reaction is about the only logical explanation for what is happening in the market right now. Sure, things…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • July 1, 2010
  • Chuck Osborne

Market Conditions

Does it feel like déjà vu all over again? This market correction is going on longer than most – and we – expected. So what is the market telling us? The economic recovery is stalled. It appears at this moment that the surge we got in Q4 2009 was a rebuilding of inventories and now…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • June 18, 2010
  • Chuck Osborne

Perspective

It has been a life-changing month for me and my family. For those of you who do not know, on May 15th I was hospitalized for treatment of a pulmonary embolism. I had multiple blood clots in both lungs, which the pulmonologist estimated were blocking 90% of the blood flow from my heart to my…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • May 20, 2010
  • Michael D. Smith

A Greek Tragedy

Today marks the first technical correction (commonly defined as a price decline of at least 10%) that we’ve seen since the beginning of the current bull market that began in March of 2009.  We first referred to the possibility of a correction in our February 4th Insight and while we were a little early in…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • May 6, 2010
  • Chuck Osborne

What Does This Button Do?

Just after 2:30 p.m. today one of our analysts stormed into my meeting to tell me the market had just plunged 8% in a matter of minutes. At first I thought he must be wrong. I have been through some big market declines, but this was the biggest thing since 1987. Indeed, the Dow had…