Premier Wen Reduces Chinese 2012 GDP forecast to 7.5%
Australia’s services sector posted a sharp decline in February. The index was down to 46.7, from 51.9 in January, the weakest since...
10 Monday AM Reads
My reads to start the week off: • Election Year Poses Challenge for Stocks (WSJ) see also Choose Your Own Adventure: SPX 2013 (Dynamic...
Consumer Confidence, The World’s Most Useless Economic Statistic
Click to enlarge: Bloomberg.com – U.S. Consumer Sentiment Climbs Toward ’08 Levels Consumer-confidence measures are climbing out of...
Why the Fed Overruled FDIC on Dividends Post-Crisis
“We remain concerned over their ability to withstand stress in an uncertain economic environment. We strongly encourage [that the...
Bank of America: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
If Bank of America is “too big to fail,” we should break it up. Sign the petition at...
Market/Economic Conference Call: Wednesday 5pm
In the office, we have been doing weekly conference calls for subscribers to FusionIQ (currently offline for maintenance). Myself and...
“Everyone knows that the Spanish are lying about the...
Chinese non manufacturing PMI declined to 48.4 in February, from 52.9 in January. However, the data may well have been impacted by the...
Birther Economic Index: Borowitz Is Onto Something
File this one under Humor is Stranger than Fiction: I have been back and forth via email with some folks of a broad political spectrum...
Program: American Experience Bill Clinton
The biography of a president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern...