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You may have missed this over the weekend: The Saturday WSJ reports that "More than $2 trillion of U.S. mortgage debt, or about a...

I’ve long railed against the rip off (2003) that is mail-in consumer rebates. I applauded Best Buy’s decision to drop them,...

The usually astute WSJ blows a front page story on yesterday’s retail sales data. Actually, you can asign 60% of the blame to...

We’ve addressed this issue previously, but Doug Kass summed up the specifics perfectly: The facts are indisputable – the...

I just read on Reuters that Dana Telsey, Bear Stearns star Retail analyst, just left to start her own firm, Telsey Advisory Group. While...

Retail comps were better than expectations this morning. As we warned during the holiday season, many retailers lowered their profit...

Lots of Real Estate news recently. Let’s start with Existing Home Sales: WSJ: "Sales of existing homes set a record for...

Alan Abelson, in this morning’s Barron’s, quotes Macro-Maven’s Stephanie Pomboy on why the consumer is soon to be...

Here’s another table I don’t know what to make of: The Economist’s Big Mac index Based on the theory of...

One of the odder bits of analyses we have happened across over the holidays is this bit of explicative: “Of course employment has...