Odd Data Point: Tech Passes Finance in SPX
How is this for an odd data point? Bank stocks are no longer the largest industry group in the SPX, having been recently bypassed by...
Read It Here First: Boating and the Economy
Last week, we had a post up titled, What Does Boating Tell Us About the Economy? Yesterday, the NYT had an interesting...
Seasonal Adjustments and Inflation
Yesterday, we spilled quite a few pixels discussing the various ways inflation has been impacting the economy. Not only did we see Core...
Malcolm Gladwell: Reinventing Invention
Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker...
Corporate Bailouts Through History
I came across an interesting piece in BusinessWeek from December 2007 on one of my favorite subjects: Corporate Bailouts Through History....
Mapping The Blogosphere
How cool is this depiction of link analysis ? Yes, I know its circa 2006 — but its still pretty neat. Sources:Welcome To The...
Price Increases, or Margin Squeezes?
Fascinating chart from Kevin Depew over at Minyanville, massaged from the PPI data released this AM: Kevin takes the spread between...
What Does Consumer Sentiment Mean In Terms of Recession
Hmmm, we seem to be tangentially looking at a lot of sentiment data today. Let’s stop beating around the bush, and look at the most...
Producer Price Index April 2008 = 0.2%, 0.4% Core
How was that for odd? The Core Rate was much higher than the headline — 0.4% versus 0.2%. Why? It has to do with the way seasonal...