Every Rolling Stone Tour Mapped
Vizzuality has a digital mashup of every single Rolling Stones tour — ever. 50 Years of touring, overlaid onto...
Open Thread: Why Is US HealthCare So Expensive
Prescription Price Index: Generic versus Brand Names Source: Express Scripts US Health Care is 2X as expensive as...
EVERYBODY KNOWS . . .
1. Most tweets go unread. Just because you tweet, don’t expect your followers to see it. Few view their feed comprehensively. They...
10 Tuesday PM Reads
My afternoon train reads: • Banks Discover Money Management Again as Trading Declines (Bloomberg) • U.S. GDP on the road to zero...
Those Idiotic ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Countdown Clocks? All...
I’ve made my views about what I think of hype about sequestration (aka incessant fiscal cliff nonsense) pretty clear. (See...
US Labor Force Participation Rate
Source: Bianco Research Since its NFP week, I thought it might be interesting to look at some assorted datapoints this week....
10 Tuesday AM Reads
My morning reads: • CFTC Study: High-Speed Trades Hurt Investors (NYT) • With Higher Taxes Ahead, Stocks Are the Stuffing for Many...
Tensions rise in South China seas
The Australian Central bank, the RBA, did indeed cut its benchmark rate by 25 bps to 3.0% as expected. Rates are now at their 2009 lows,...
The War on Christmas: Friendly Fire Edition
For Fox News, the war on Christmas has become a rote observance devoid of all its original meaning. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet...