Quote of the Day: Fisher on Inflation
Sayeth the Dallas Fed President: "We know from centuries of evidence in countless economies, from ancient Rome to today’s...
Boone Pickens: Speculation a ‘Scapegoat’ for Oil...
Billionaire Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital LLC, talks about his investment in wind power, the impact of speculation...
Uh-Oh: Dangerous Black Swan Chart Formation!
This is a very dangerous formation, as detailed in Nassim Taleb’s Book The Black Swan. Traders should be very careful anytime this...
Mac Market Share: 7.8%
> Even though I don’t believe it, it is an encouraging data point for those of us who are not Windows fans: Apple’s (AAPL)...
Read It Here First: States’ Impact on Economy
Last month, we discussed States and Cities Impact On GDP. They account for about 12.5% of total US GDP. The Sunday NYT had a related...
Barrons.com Goes Real-Time
FYI: Barrons.com is now providing real time stock and index quotes: Barrons.com is pleased to now offer real-time prices for U.S. stocks...
Consumer Mortgages, 90 days past due
This morning’s chart porn comes to us via Citigroup — and an informative chart this is: > U.S. Consumer −...
Bad Headline of the Day: ISM Expands ?
Um, no: Perhaps the headline writer meant that the May reading of 49.6, as compared to the prior month’s reading of 48.6, was an...
More Foreclosures
On Sunday, we discussed the shift in foreclosures from sub-prime to prime, via the NYT. This morning, the WSJ jumps in with this column:...
That ’70s Show?
Paul Krugman discusses some of the differences between the current credit crisis and inflationary environment and the 1970s. Professor...