The Big Picture

Its been a while, so its time for us to take another look at two charts from the fantastic collection of charts via Ron Griess at the...

Let’s try our luck now with our weekly partnership with Gallup — we call it Attitude Check. As always, here now is Frank...

Twist and Whimper David R. Kotok June 21, 2012 We have regular morning email exchanges with several media...

Existing Home Sales in May totaled 4.55mm annualized, slightly below expectations of 4.57mm and down from 4.62mm in April. The sales drop...

My morning recon: • The Fed’s Soft Launch of QE3 (WSJ) see also With Output Stumbling, Fed Takes a Modest Step (NYT) • A...

Spanish and Italian bonds are rallying for a 3rd straight day on the prospect the EFSF will utilize a function it was originally granted...

Yesterday’s FOMC meeting has lots of people chattering about whether the Fed did too much or too little. Forget consensus, there is...

BOJ’s Mr Ishida reports that the BoJ will take “bold steps” where necessary – bold steps, for the Japanese...