Houses Keep Getting Bigger
I am having lunch today with Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel, and that means the latest (and some of the craziest) NYC real estate...
The Not So Friendly Skies
@TBPInvictus I’m excited about skiplagged.com, the website that is currently being sued by United Airlines and Orbitz for enabling...
Don’t Shop on Thanksgiving and Other Good Advice
Retailing’s Black Friday Hoax Forecasts for large increases in holiday retail sales, designed to get consumers into stores, are...
Consumer, Where Art Thou?
Lunch with Dave by David A. Rosenberg U.S. GDP Review — Consumer, Where Art Thou? While the headline real GDP number came in a tad...
June: Greater Spending on Fuel Than Cars
Whenever we see a strange datapoint — something that hasn’t happened for decades, its worth noting. Recall in 2005, the US...
Starbucks: $2 Special
I’ve been meaning to post something on this for a while, but today’s “discount” finally did it for me. As you may...
Bank Lending Practices Tighten as Loan Demand Falls
While the Federal Reserve continues to pump money into the system at an unprecedented rate, less and less of it is finding its way to...
‘The US banking system is sound…’
Well, not really. As William Engdahl notes at Global Research in Canada, "behind the reassuring statements from Paulson and others...