You may have missed this info graphic in the WSJ over the weekend. click thru for full interactive graphic Source:Are You Better Off Now...
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First M3, now . . . Sometimes, when the data is (how shall we say this) less than delightful, politicians pressure bureaucracies to...
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In today’s NYTimes, Floyd Norris hits on a subject that has been a favorite of ours over the years: Finding the true measure of the...
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I have been meaning to post this since Thursday morning : An interview with Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia Professor who is a Nobel...
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The latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey of economists is out (in the free section of the WSJ). Some of the survey...
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I am running out to the AMEX, but I wanted to make sure you read a piece in today’s NYT by David Leonhardt: For Many, a Boom That...
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Merrill Lynch says that they (ML) are through the worst of the credit crisis. RBC Capital Markets believes that whether that is the case...
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This weekend, we noted that in terms of job creation, the 2002-07 post-recession recovery was the very worst in the post-WWII era. This...
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This is the updated version of the chart I used yesterday, showing this 2003-08 cycle, courtesy of Spencer England’s Economic...
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The March employment data was much worse than expected: NonFarm Payroll down 80,000, Unemployment Rate 5.1%, all prior revisions worsen...
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