Retail Sales Ask: “What Soft Landing?”
Let’s take a quick look at the Retail Sales data, and put to rest some amusing theories about the resilience of the consumer. The...
Buy Versus Rent Spreadsheet
One of the very cool things about Google Spreadsheets is how fully web integrated it is. The web side of it is not an afterthought, but...
10/11/06 upside down is 9/11/01
10/11/06 = is 9/11/01 >How’s this for a conspiracy theory? (Really more pattern recognition than anything) Doug Kass makes the...
Zero Sum Game (ZSG)
I was surprised at the reaction to the Zero Sum intro yesterday. I keep forgetting there are lots of bad memes and worse ideas that have...
Household versus Establishment Surveys, part 42
For some reason, there seems to be this ongoing wishful thinking that somehow, this economy is creating far more jobs than we are...
Absurdly Large BLS Revisions, part II
Our previous look at this Absurdly Large BLS Revision simply wasn’t satisfying; So I had to spend some additional time reviewing...
An Absurdly Large Outlier in the History of BLS Revisions
OK, let’s have a quick look at Friday’s NFP: Yes, we know that 51k new jobs stink; No, it was not a "perfect...
Stockpickr.com
I came across an interesting stock screener/filter recently: Stockpickr.com Its described by some of the creators as a...
New Home Starts? Don’t Make Me Laugh!
I continue to be astonished by the econopundit’s lack of solid connection with reality. It’s as if Faith-based initiatives...
Ted Rall is channelling my wealth discussions!
How’s this for amusing: Last week, we discussed the nature of What is Wealth?; It was a follow up to our 2004 chat on the...