Merry Christmas!

I want to take a moment and step back from all of the intellectual studies and wrestling to stop and say:


MERRY CHRISTMAS!



At the end of the day, what really matters is loving your family and friends and enjoying their company, whether they are in your house or ten thousand miles away, the internet makes the world a smaller and sometimes more friendly place.

Have a very merry Christmas and enjoy the time with friends and family.

Music and life

Music is a somewhat fundamental part of life.  A long time ago (about 10 years.. yea, long time for me), I had zero interest in music; and, in fact, I even considered it to be non-productive and a waste of time and resources.

Since then, I have altered my view on it some, and continue to change as I consider it.

The sky is falling! Interactions between DXY and the stock market

In my studies of the stock market behavior and other various macro-economic trends, I found a fascinating correlation between the US dollar index, DXY and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The US dollar index is a measure of the US dollar in comparison with a basket of currencies as defined by the group that dismantled the Bretton Woods Standard in 1971.  It effectively measures the value of the US dollar relative to other large free market economies in the world.  It is often construed as a measure of the relative confidence in the US in the world as a whole, because when people change their money to hold US dollars, then this index will increase in value, and visa versa.