Its that time of year: It started around Halloween, and by now I am already tired of walking into stores and getting assaulted with...
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How’s this for some chart-porn? Just beautiful . . . ~~~ Acck! Would whoever sent me this gorgeous chart please reveal themselves?...
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I was chatting with a friend about our earlier post taking apart the New Housing Sales data (Sales drop 23.5%), and he asked —...
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Markets up smartly on the heels of Bernanke’s speech last night. The panic had become palpable, leading to dovish comments from...
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Yesterday morning, Commerce released the New Residential Sales data. Encouragingly, the media has caught on to the monthly nonsense built...
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Of all the portable media players I have used (and thats lots), none compares very favorably to the iPod. But as of late, the gap...
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A studio executive explains the Hollywood writers’ strike (as written by striking Colbert Report writers). Bloody brilliant. Also,...
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Today’s chart-porn is this depiction of the tightening credit cycle from a front page NYT article. The chart itself was too...
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One of the things people do not understand is a basic truth about the BLS, BEA, Commerce Department, and other government data sources. I...
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Here’s the WSJ lede on GDP: "The U.S. economy soared last summer, growing at a rate much stronger than earlier estimated, but...
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