December Retail Sales Ho Ho Hum
Quick overview of some of today’s December Retail data: Wal-Mart cut fiscal Q4 earnings target about 10% from $1.03-07 to 91-94...
Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Feldstein Discuss Stimulus
A conversation about Obama’s economic stimulus package with Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Feldstein:
Calculating Your Loss Recovery
The NYT has this nice interactive graphic that calculates how long it will take to return to breakeven: > Source: Calculate Your...
“PAULSON’S GIFT” ; A Review of the Bailout...
First, want to make everyone aware of the event in DC on January 28, 2009, at American Enterprise Institute. Co-sponsored by the DC...
Paying for Energy Efficiency
graphic courtesy of NYT > Source: Obscure Fee Pays for Efficient-Energy Projects KEN BELSON NYT, December 28, 2008...
Karl Rove’s Factually Challenged Housing Revisionism
As the saying goes, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. The instant historical revisionism by Karl Rove in...
Friday Worries Arrive Ahead of Schedule
Good Evening: Investors decided today not to wait until Friday to begin worrying about large scale job losses in the nonfarm payrolls...
Tough Times
What is it about The New York Times that generates so much hand-wringing? In a rambling essay on the fate of the Times published in The...