What are Car-Sales Saying About a Recession? According to Floyd Norris of the NYT, potentially alot. In his column in today’s...
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When a few people email the same question, it makes me wonder what the basis of the story might be. Yesterday, several emailers noted...
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Today’s data release got the party rolling: Core PPI (excluding food and energy) fell 0.3%, the first such drop since October...
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One of the more interesting issues of any modelling or statistical work is whether they have the attributes of Accuracy or Precision....
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David Merkel at RM notes that as controversial as the word "Stagflation" is, it is getting more popular as "references to...
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Norm Conley of the The Street.com and I were discussing the Market reaction post Fed, and we each were wondering why 1980 seems to be...
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Prediction market guru Chris Masse, along with columnist Don Luskin, takes a well aimed potshot at the prediction markets: ...
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"The most volatile part of the American economy has slowed significantly in the last nine months, providing a warning of both...
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During yesterday’s discussion with Doc Yardeni, he described an economy with employment so full that we couldn’t possibly...
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Mike Panzner sends us this Q3 variation of the January effect: During the past two decades, the market has been up in the first month of...
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