Yes, payroll numbers, unemployment and joblessness are lagging indicators. It’s a well known understood process: As companies start...
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Bernard Bernanke on the thankless task of economic forecasting: “When I was a boy in South Carolina, my parents always advised me...
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On numerous occasions we have written (more times than we care to recall) that this has been a unique recession/recovery cycle with a...
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After years (if not decades) of failing to discharge their duties with diligence or honor, we have now reached the point where the SEC is...
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A few factual tidbits re: rising gas prices; (labor day weekend often marks the peak in gasoline prices for the year). Its a subject I...
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The very able Jesse Eisinger of the WSJ this morning observes that the Feds have nobody to blame but themselves for Oklahoma stepping...
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Houston Chronicle shut out of 2 more hearings By MARY FLOOD Fastow transcript still denied release, A federal judge held two more closed...
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First, the handwringing. Solemn, serious soliloquies. Then comes angst: “This will interfere with our methodical case building...
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The BBC hosted a unique global television debate about America’s place in the world with 10 other national broadcasters. As part of...
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Quote of the Day: “The laws of physics have met the laws of economics. And the result has been a morass that has prevented the...
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