Contrarian Indicator Alert

Economics
Author

Stephen Kirchner

Published

May 26, 2006

Barry Ritholtz points to one of our favourite contrarian indicators, but one which is giving mixed signals.  Do we run with the bear on the cover, or the inside story which urges us to ‘stare down the bear’?  Perhaps The Economist has at last recovered some semblance of its former intellectual modesty (but I’m staying bearish on that question).