Friday Morning Reads
Some reads to get your Friday morning started: • U.S. manufacturing attempts a high-tech comeback (Chicago Tribune) • Cheat Sheet on...
FusionIQ’s Ritholtz on Stock Market, Economy
Barry Ritholtz, chief executive officer of FusionIQ, talks about the outlook for the U.S. stock market, economy and his investment...
U.S. Regional Unemployment Rates
An informative chart from the BLS showing the unemployment rate by region. Last month, the highest regional unemployment rate in the...
What Do People Actually Tweet About?
Tweet Topic Explorer (Neoformix) is a bubble chart illustrating the most popular themes discussed by a specific user-chosen Twitter...
Building a “Dedicated Digital Reporter”
From Irene Ros and the Visual Communication Lab, comes this unusual interactive graphic. It uses data from the NYT’s coverage of...
S&P500 Cap Weight versus Equal Weight
The S&P500 is one of the most widely held indices in the US. And yet, the Market Cap weighted version has a tendency to become...
Peter Wallison Discusses Fannie and Freddie for the American...
Mike Konczal is a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, and is a blogger at the Rortybomb Blog and New Deal 2.0. ~~~ So the American...
Atlanta Fed’s 2011 Financial Markets Conference:...
Simon Johnson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, speaks about the vexing issue of too big to fail at the Atlanta...
Thursday Morning Reading List
The latest adds to my Instapaper: • Fed Gave Banks Secret Loans as Low as 0.01% (Business Week) • What’s Hurting the Middle Class...
IBM Now Bigger Than Microsoft
Today’s WTF data point is related to David Einhorn’s call for Steve Ballmer’s resignation. Earlier this week, Microsoft...