Consumer deleveraging: only just begun?
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that outstanding consumer credit for November fell a worse-than-expected $7.9 billion, lending...
Market Sentiment Review
We are fond of all manner of sentiment measures, including anecdotal info like this. However, we always find ourselves going back to the...
Video-O-Rama: Figuring out the lie of the financial land
Video-o-rama: Figuring out the lie of the financial land In addition to more “Outlook for 2009” videos (dealt with in last...
Millionaires Say They Were Failed by Advisers in Crisis
I found this data intriguing: Nearly two-thirds of U.S. millionaires say their investment advisers have failed them during the global...
U3 vs. U6 Unemployment Data
I love the way the two data lines on the graph below overlap: via Jake at Econompic > Source: Table A-12. Alternative measures of...
Top 2009 Gadgets
WSJ’s Walt Mossberg talks about the top gadgets of 2009, from a headset that makes PC video games 3-D to HP notebooks, that are...