Jeff Carter

Jeff Carter

Jeffrey Carter is an independent speculator. He has been trading since 1988. He is a former member of the CME Board of Directors. He currently does commentary on markets for CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg Television, CNN International, Canadian News Network, Bloomberg Radio, WTTW, WBEZ-FM, WGN, CBS Chicago and CBS News. His blog site, Points and Figures was named by Minyanville as one of The 20 Most Influential Blogs in Financial Media.

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5 Reasons Capital Gains Taxes Mean Something To People Making $50,000

Sep 25, 2012
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The Complacency of America

Sep 24, 2012
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Another Strike in Chicago

Sep 23, 2012
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High Speed Trading At Exchanges

Sep 22, 2012
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What Makes A Market?

Sep 21, 2012
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The Muslim Bomber in Chicago

Sep 19, 2012
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Gas Prices

Sep 18, 2012
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Quantitative Easing Explained...by Chipmunks

Sep 17, 2012
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On The Arab Spring

Sep 16, 2012
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Where Is The Inflation?

Sep 15, 2012
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Are Your Finances Safer Today Than They Were Four Years Ago?

Sep 13, 2012
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Playing the Rich Card

Sep 12, 2012
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Chicago Teachers on Strike But Is It For Real?

Sep 11, 2012
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America 2016

Sep 9, 2012
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Unemployment, Growth and Competition

Sep 8, 2012
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How Unions Will Cause the Collapse of the Economy

Sep 7, 2012
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Obama Makes No Hard Choices

Sep 6, 2012
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Kapow Is Creating Disruption In The Event Space

Sep 5, 2012
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Labor Day Should Be “Innovators Day”

Sep 4, 2012
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Is There a Need for Political Conventions?

Sep 3, 2012
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Why QE3? Because Bernanke Says 25 Million Unemployed is a Tragedy

Sep 2, 2012
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Landslide

Sep 1, 2012
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Which Comes First, Entrepreneurs or Capital?

Aug 31, 2012
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The Myth of “The Corporate Wife”

Aug 30, 2012
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When Insiders Sell An IPO is it “Bad”?

Aug 26, 2012
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A Preview of What’s To Come

Aug 25, 2012
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Government Intervention Screws Up Markets

Aug 24, 2012
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Dodd-Frank Spawns European CME

Aug 23, 2012
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Evidence of Corzine Fraud

Aug 21, 2012
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Mayor Bloomberg Hates Bloggers

Aug 20, 2012
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Mistaken Transparency

Aug 18, 2012
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Corzine Will Not Be Prosecuted

Aug 17, 2012
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Trickle Up Poverty Doesn’t Work

Aug 14, 2012
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The Parable of the Brownie

Aug 13, 2012
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Paul Ryan, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee

Aug 12, 2012
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A Vote For Obama is a Vote For Corruption

Aug 11, 2012
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Joe Soptic? Meet the Obama Bus

Aug 10, 2012
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Where Is My Buggy Whip?

Aug 8, 2012
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The Ticking Time Bomb

Aug 7, 2012
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Be Aware of LinkedIN SPAM

Aug 6, 2012
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Food Trucks in Chicago

Aug 5, 2012
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Why a For-Profit Exchange is Better

Aug 4, 2012
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The Bill for Broken Markets

Aug 3, 2012
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Markets Are Broken

Aug 2, 2012
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Happy 100th Milton Friedman

Aug 1, 2012
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Two Reservoirs of Despair

Jul 31, 2012
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The Drought, and GMO Crops

Jul 30, 2012
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Drought and Milk And Cheese and Meat

Jul 28, 2012
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Did The Tech Bubble Burst Again?

Jul 27, 2012
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The Fed Brought A Knife to a Gunfight

Jul 26, 2012