The Big Picture

Most people usually have a good reason for doing what it is that they do. Whenever I am asked why I blog or push back against headlines,...

What a strange week this was — markets, data, conference calls — were all over the place. Since its a holiday weekend,...

Cool map of the globe, with countries’ sizes depicted relative to their Oil Reserves: Courtesy of Energy Bulletin ~~~ I don’t...

Much of investing relates to mathematics and the application of statistics. Markets are statistical data generating machines, and that...

Since no one is around, let’s rerun this one: This is one holiday-themed list that won’t make you ill: By now,...

Hey, we won a Bespy! "The First Annual BESPy awards. The BESPy recognizes the “Top” BLOGS, EDUCATION, SOFTWARE and PODCASTS...

Our earlier post, From Worst to First Second: Business Week Forecast 2007 may have been a bit premature: According to the fine...

Earlier this week, my pal Larry Kudlow showed a chart of M1. His purpose was to demonstrate that the growth of the money supply was...

For the past 15 or so years, BusinessWeek has been doing a big year end issue, listing various strategists’ forecasts for market...

Here are what readers of The Big Picture bought from Amazon in December: ~~~ ~~~ Starting from the 1 o’clock position, and going...