How Market Tops Get Made
How Market Tops Get Made With all the bubble chatter and talks of over-valued stock markets, I thought it was time to have a discussion...
Follow the Money: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Profit From Global Warming or Get Left Behind Forget the debate about climate change; the search for investment opportunities is on and...
Narrative Rules
Stock Market Stories Lead Us Astray Trying to explain why financial markets behave in a certain way often comes down to a narrative that...
Why Dosn’t U.S. Take Advantage of Low Rates?
Source: Office of Debt Management, Fiscal Year 2013 Q4 Report The recent chaos in emerging markets has driven investors into U.S....
Global Warming Battle Is Now About Market Share — Not...
Last week, the New York Times reported that venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average component Coca-Cola Co. was awakening to the impact of...
NFP: Pay No Attention to the Statistician Behind the Curtains
Pay No Attention to the Government Statistician Behind the Curtain Okay, strap in for yet another tirade on why you should (for the most...
Always Low Wages? Wal-Mart’s Other Choices
Always Low Wages? Wal-Mart’s Other Choices Wal-Mart’s holiday public-relations headache began when a Canton, Ohio, store...
What Kinds of Errors Are You Making (and what are you doing to...
It is an annual event that comes with the regularity of Thanksgiving and holiday shopping. I am referring to the Black Friday survey that...
The Innumeracy of the Media Has Not Been Greatly Exaggerated
One would hope that after a decade of people lamenting the poor reporting of Thanksgiving weekend retail data, the news media might learn...
The Bifurcated Recovery in Jobs
Recovery’s Great If You Were Already Rich (or Even Modestly Well Off) The beneficiaries of the economic recovery have been a...
