Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that outstanding consumer credit for November fell a worse-than-expected $7.9 billion, lending...
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We are fond of all manner of sentiment measures, including anecdotal info like this. However, we always find ourselves going back to the...
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Video-o-rama: Figuring out the lie of the financial land In addition to more “Outlook for 2009” videos (dealt with in last...
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I found this data intriguing: Nearly two-thirds of U.S. millionaires say their investment advisers have failed them during the global...
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I love the way the two data lines on the graph below overlap: via Jake at Econompic > Source: Table A-12. Alternative measures of...
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WSJ’s Walt Mossberg talks about the top gadgets of 2009, from a headset that makes PC video games 3-D to HP notebooks, that are...
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Today’s big NFP is as close to consensus as we have seen in recent years: within 1k of the estimates: Peter Boockvar writes:...
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Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. ~~~ Outlook: As we look at...
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Get a grip, people. I’ve been dying to tell that to the parade of sycophants, pundits and talking heads who have been aghast at the...
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Today’s must read MSM piece is a brutal Bloomberg column, delineating why the Bailouts have been such a sweet deal for the banks....
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