Economic data
Headline PPI rose 7.3% y/o/y, above expectations of 6.8% and its the fastest pace since Sept ’08. Wholesale inflation rose .2%...
Top Grossing Films / Academy Award Winners, by Genre
High Correlation Between Retail Sales and Job Creation
For the past 19 years, the levels of Real Retail and Food Services Sales and Total Nonfarm Payrolls have had a +0.96 correlation, so...
Pop & Drop ?
Last week, I mentioned that we often see a 7 day rally following a 90/90 day downside day (Strong Futures and Euro, but Likely a 7 Day...
More stuff
Twenty minutes after the Shanghai index closed, the PBOC raised reserve requirements by another 50 bps to a record high of 21.5 after May...
U.S. Macro in Three Charts: Credit Flows
The U.S. is suffering from insufficient aggregate demand the result of the bursting of the 2004-07 credit bubble. The consumer led...
Production Numbers All Argue for Investment in Precious Metals
As legendary investor Jeremy Grantham notes, copper production is falling: As I’ve previously noted, gold production has also been...
Jackie Moon’s Lehman Moment
We love allegories. The Wizard of Oz was, many believed, an allegory of the political and economic times of the 1890s. The “Yellow...
What Killed EBAY (& the Internet Auction)?
In this morning’s reads, I mentioned an interesting James Surowiecki piece in Wired, titled Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the...