A few items worth reviewing
Its a rainy day here in the NorthEast, so for those of you who remain tethered to your computers over the weekend awaiting a change in...
Understanding the Post-Bubble Economy
"Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long...
New Column up at Real Money (04/29/05)
.My latest Real Money column, "Understanding the Post-Bubble Economy" is up. The column contains several themes which readers...
Most Have Poor Grasp of Economics
We previously looked at the question of Why You Suck at Investing. Our concerns were of physiological and emotional aspects, rather...
Economists react to GDP
> We once again rely on the very excellent Online WSJ for a quick mind meld with the Dismal Scientists re: GDP. Once...
GDP: el stinkeroo!
Guess what? The Dismal set overshot again: via WSJ: "The U.S. economy expanded at the slowest pace in two years in the...
Durable Goods: Bleech
Overlooked in yesterday’s Oil-a-palooza was March’s data on Durable Goods. To say the least, the number stunk the joint up. I...
China’s Thirst for Oil (and Cancer treatments)
More on Oil and China, this time from an interesting NYT’s article from last week: One of the reason’s China’s Oil...
Wal-Mart versus Oil Prices
Its no coincidence that as Oil has reached multi-year highs, Wal-Mart has tumbled to multi-year lows. Thats the dominant impact of...
China Syndrome?
Much has been made of the link between the surge in commodity prices in recent years and the explosive growth in Chinese demand. The...