Over the past few weeks, I have posted on an eclectic assortment of items. That is keeping with the blog’s sub-title: Macro...
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With yesterday’s close in the SPX cash at 1075, dead smack in the middle of the trading range from early July, the daily quote on...
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Dilbert looks at the issue of regulatory capture, with just a touch of sarcasm: >
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Wired has an odd little feature Web is Dead (Long Live the Internet) about their forecast from 1997 (Push!). They claimed way back then...
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> Stephen J. Dubner, NYT journalist and co-author of the book Freakonomics, asks the following question at the Freakonomics/Times...
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With implied inflation rates in the TIPS moving lower to levels last seen in mid ’09, Fed Pres Bullard (Mr. We’re Turning...
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The Aug Philly Fed survey was a big miss at -7.7 vs expectations of +7.0. It’s the weakest reading since July ’09 and is down...
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The 56 year cycle mentioned yesterday (“Periods When to Make Money” (© 1883) was picked up by FT Alphaville; we hear it caused some...
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Insight on the state of the economy and markets, with Byron Wien, Blackstone Advisory. At the 7 minute mark, Wien takes Kernan to school....
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Initial Jobless Claims printed 500k for the 1st time since mid Nov ’09, were 22k above expectations and up from 488k last week. The...
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