Chart of the Day: Components of the Gasoline Price Traveling in California today we witnessed $4.00 gas and prompted us to think what makes up the price. We constructed the following... Read More
NFP: Likely Improvement May Lead to End of QE, ZIRP By the numbers: Consensus for monthly BLS payroll data are gains in the 200k level (survey forecasts 100,000 to 297,000). This follows an... Read More
Headline of the Day: Greenspan Says Government ‘Activism’... What a schmuck: The worst central banker in the history of planet earth has a something new to say: U.S. government “activism”... Read More
China Takes Giant Step Towards Making Yuan the World’s... Washington’s Blog strives to provide real-time, well-researched and actionable information. George – the head writer at... Read More
TDS: Teachers vs Wall Street Crisis in the Dairyland – For Richer and Poorer The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Crisis in the Dairyland... Read More
Worldwide Mobile Operating Systems Mega graphic! click for mind-blowingly ginormous graphic Paid Content via Social Media Graphics Read More
Sam Zell to Carl Quintanilla: BULLSHIT! As tweeted earlier today, crusty old Sam Zell — wrong on residential real estate, wrong on the Chicago Tribune, yells BULLSHIT to... Read More
Gasparino: Spitzer Caused the Financial Crisis I like Charlie Gasparino. I really do. He used to be a sharp elbowed, hard nosed WSJ reporter that dug for stories. Blood on the Street:... Read More
Average Income in the United States (1913-2006) A pre NFP look at the really long term growth of average income in the USA, via Visualizing Economics: > Average Income in the United... Read More
200 Years of US Government Bond Yields Nice chart from Dylan Grice of Société Générale showing two hundred years of US government bond yields (year end %): > click for... Read More