REAL income up, REAL spending While included in Friday’s report on Q2 GDP, the June data on income and spending points to the weak contribution consumption gave... Read More
Speaker Boehner’s Debt Ceiling Agreement Presentation Speaker Boehner's Debt Ceiling Agreement Presentation View more presentations from Brian Ahier Read More
Tuesday AM Reads Today’s reading list brought to you politics-as-usual: • Smoke, Mirrors, and Obama’s Humbling (New Yorker) see also Taibbi on... Read More
US budget deal: Was it worth the fight? Dr. Harm Bandholz, CFA Chief US Economist UniCredit Research Harm Bandholz is the Chief US Economist for the UniCredit Group in New York.... Read More
Ask not what the EFSF can do for you… Ask not what the EFSF can do for you, ask what you can do for yourselves. I say this to Italy and Spain who are both suffering another... Read More
There’s Something Happening Here . . . There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to... Read More
Did The 2008-09 Downturn Ever End? “Many Americans Believe That The 2008-2009 Downturn Never Ended”. They’re Right. Msnbc notes: Many Americans believe... Read More
Brian Williams/Jimmy Fallon: Slow Jam Debt Ceiling With the debt ceiling deadline looming, NBC news man Brian Williams explains the situation with Jimmy and The Roots (7/29/11) Read More
Monday PM reads Some afternoon reads for your reading pleasure: • America is merely wounded, Europe risks death (Telegraph) • ‘Embarrassed’... Read More