WSJ Goes All YouTube On Us
The WSJ goes all YouTube on us (via BrightCove‘s technology). It allows the embedding of their video onto other sites, and is...
Intra-Day Reversal
It’s rarely any one single element that leads to major reversal such as we saw today. However, we can identify a half dozen elements...
St. Louis Fed’s Monetary Trends
Every month, the St. Louis Fed puts out their monthly book of charts. They cover lots of great stuff: Monetary and Financial Indicators...
Producer Prices & Inflation
Tales of Inflation’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. PPI — the prices for finished goods, not raw materials —...
Debt and its Discontents
Lots of Bulls — and quite a few commenters here — agree there is a worldwide boom going on. What is fueling it, you may ask?...
CPI update: Um, not so fast!
Several readers (and Peter Bookvar) have suggested going to the Cleveland Fed CPI data: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of...
Parsing the FOMC Statement
Via the public section of the WSJ comes this smart parsing of the FOMC statement: Click for full document: Source:Four!Tuesday, Dec. 12,...
Waiting for the Fed; Looking at a few charts
Let’s have a go at some historical charts that might be influencing the FOMC today. Everyone is pretty much expecting a "No...
NFP: Watch the Comp
Last month, we retired the Over/Under bet. The monthly and annual BLS revisions have conspired to make the initial numbers all but...