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Barry is taking a well needed break but I’m certain he’s never far from his laptop. He asked me to drop in occasionally so...

Bill Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of...

First Bernanke, now the GAO: It appears the adults — an admittedly small group of folks in Washington DC — are beginning...

Hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein discusses whether the Federal Reserve caused the recent commodity inflation. Visit msnbc.com for...

This is my favorite of all of the Existing Home Sales series — Non Seasonallly Adjusted (NSA). (Check out Calculated Risk’s...

Nowhere Near Over David R. Kotok February 23, 2011 www.cumber.com > This is nowhere near over. By “This”, we mean the regional...

This infographic comes to us Ciaran Hughes of Programme 4 in Britain: > via Channel 4

Fool Me Once… February 22, 2011 Bob Eisenbeis, Chief Monetary Economist www.cumber.com > I don’t normally pen an economic...

Chart Store week continues at the Big Picture. Today’s TCS graph is the NYSE Market Capitalization, shown over time as a percentage...

Via Word Spy, comes today’s word of the day: shelter porn n. Images and text that glorify or fetishize high-end architecture, home...