October 2012 - The Big Picture

Click to enlarge: Once again, its time to peruse the data to see which books TBP readers bought last month. Amazon’s embed code lets me...

My afternoon still aint got no electricity reads: • Asshat award goes to Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown; criticizes Obama for...

Nightmare on Wall Street Hat tip Bianco Research

~~~ Adjusted for population and housing Source: NPR Lots more charts and tables here.

S&P 500 Index with Share Weighted Earnings Average YoY Gain/Loss From Fusion’s Kevin Lane: “The lower chart panel...

Home Prices continue to rise in August 2012, according to the Case Shiller: (I tried to post this yesterday, but apprently, it did not...

Japanese PMI fell to 46.9 in October, an 18 month low, down from 48.0 in September. The reading suggests that manufacturing production...

Source: Mashable

Following the very mixed bag of results in most of the regional mfr’g survey’s, the Chicago area said its mfr’g index...

Markets are set to open shortly, but I am wondering why. I’ve spoken/email/Tweeted to a substantial number of traders and fund...