Is the Bull Dead?
Is the bull market, which started after the lows of early 2009, coming to an end? Let’s have a look at some data, as well as the...
Bill Gates Walks Out of a Bar – Of Means & Medians
@TBPInvictus Among the more overlooked data sources out there is the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). My guess as...
Housing Market Takes Wandering Path to Recovery
How Healthy Is Housing? High-end real estate is doing great; the rest so-so. Bloomberg, June 18, 2015 For...
What If Something Goes Right in the Economy?
The preoccupation with all of the things that could possibly go wrong has been a persistent characteristic of this economic...
Why Not Everyone is Feeling the Economic Recovery
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at why the economic recovery is so unevenly...
Crisis Chronicles: The Man on the Twenty-Dollar Bill and the...
Crisis Chronicles: The Man on the Twenty-Dollar Bill and the Panic of 1837 Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron Liberty Street Economics,...