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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Yesterday, I referenced Matt Trivisonno’s chart on federal withholding taxes in order to defenestrate some wildly inaccurate...
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Here’s some more bad news for John Q. Public: We all know that the fun of the past few years Housing binge / ATM withdrawal / GDP...
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Many breathed a sigh of relief over the final revision of 2007 Q4 GDP. However, we took a closer look to at some of the data to see what...
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Matt Trivisonno, a software developer in Miami Beach who follows the market, has come up with a neat way to track changes in the Federal...
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> "This product was meant to help people do construction on their house, [and] do debt consolidation — not to take out...
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We’ve been looking at various unemployment rates lately, heading into today’s NFP report at 8:30 am. A few things worth...
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A quick follow up to last week’s Hackonomics discussion, where we looked at how little alleged wealth inequality there is in...
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“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to...
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