Top 20 Concert Tours
Via Pollstar, we get the top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price...
Tuesday Readings
These are the most interesting reads I came across today: • Why the Doomsayers Are Wrong (WSJ) • Crisis Awaits World’s Banks as...
Reagan’s Tax Increases
OK, last post on this subject: Bruce Bartlett wrote me to fill in the full Reagan tax story (recall he was a domestic policy adviser to...
Highest Single Stock Correlation with S&P500 Since ’87
Is Alpha becoming Beta? That seems to be the case lately, with a very high correlation between stocks.The WSJ noted the sync between...
Ferguson: A U.S. Debt Crisis Is On Its Way
Source: Niall Ferguson: A U.S. Debt Crisis Is On Its Way Joe Weisenthal Yahoo Tech Ticker Jul 12, 2010...
Do Europeans Support Spending Cuts?
> In light of our earlier post on Deficit Chicken Hawks, I found this FT article (Support for European spending cuts strong) about...
Optimism with only a touch of grey, if global
Alcoa and CSX both started Q2 earnings reports on a good note but its what they said about the macro outlook that is most relevant for...
Deficit Chicken Hawks vs Ronald Reagan
Once upon a time, there was a President. He was elected in the middle of a recession, following an economic crisis and a decade long bear...
Futures Positive on Earnings, Europe’s Gains
European stocks gained for a sixth day and U.S. index futures rose after Alcoa’s earnings beat estimates and BP Plc advanced on a...