PPT: The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about secret cabals and the plunge protection team. I notice it seems to be coming primarily...
A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com
via infosthetics, we see these two interesting maps showing US and Worldwide traffic of the Times website: US The New York Times site...
NY Fed Now in Charge of Bank Disclosures
Today’s WTF headline: • BusinessWeek: Banks Should Make Swap Prices Transparent, NY Fed Says Which follows yesterday’s WTF...
Payrolls blah, this is not your typical post WWII recovery
Dec Payrolls fell by 85k but Nov showed a positive gain of 4k up from the initial report of -11 but Oct was revised down by 16k....
NFP: -85,000 (So Much For that Upside)
Employment Situation Summary: Establishment Survey Data: Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-85,000) in December, and the...
Non Farm Payroll, Unemployment Preview
The current speculation about town is that NFP will be a positive number; Some folks have even surmised that due to certain seasonal...
Less bad may turn good
Less bad may turn good today in terms of the labor market. The consensus for Dec payrolls is for a flat reading after an 11k drop in Nov...
CD Sales Continue Free Fall in 2009
Another year, another collapse in CD sales. For the eighth time in nine years, U.S. album sales declined. That’s according to data...
Job Dissatisfaction
With U.S. Job Satisfaction at the lowest level in two decades, this cartoon is not only relevant, its just in time for tomorrow’s...
Afternoon Reads
Here are the articles that caught my attention today: • The economic ‘experts’ who stopped making sense (Telegraph) Why,...