Producer Price Index April 2008 = 0.2%, 0.4% Core
How was that for odd? The Core Rate was much higher than the headline — 0.4% versus 0.2%. Why? It has to do with the way seasonal...
What Do the Leading Economic Indicators Reveal?
Yesterday, we saw the release of the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI). It was the second consecutive month of a slight rise in the...
Buffett Sees ‘Plenty’ of European Acquisition Targets
Huge, nearly an hour long Buffett video, via Bloomberg: click for l o n g video Billionaire Warren Buffett speaks at a news...
Researchers Wanted
Back in April, I mentioned I was considering hiring an intern for the office. That’s on hold — probably until the fall...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
Now you can see what gas prices are around the country at a glance. Areas are color coded according to their price for the average price...
S&P500 Profits Ex 3 Oil Cos = Awful
Last week, Larry Kudlow wanted to look at the SPX earnings ex-Financials. My response: This was like looking at my own baseball hitting...
Survey: Is the U.S. economy on the rebound?
The WSJ Question of the Day: Is the U.S. economy on the rebound? I need to contextualize this, as I am not sure what this means: Is this...
How to Call a Recession
Interesting piece in Business Week on the independent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). They are the official arbiters of...
Subprime Writedown: Losses Per Employee
Here Is The City (London’s fastest growing financial website) put together a terrific chart: The Credit Crunch In Context. It shows...