Guest author: Ed Easterling, founder and President of Crestmont Research.  Bio at end of the article. The end is near!  Stock market history and earnings cycle history are converging.  As a result, the market is likely to be down for the year 2011 or 2… more »

There is a skeptical gremlin perched on the left shoulder for many investors. He often sneers at notions of "cycles" and other presumably predictable periods. When the word "secular" accompanies the word "cycle," that gremlin becomes even more scornful. Why do we use the term "secular cycle" with the stock market and what does it mean? more »