The Big Picture

I have previously mentioned Paul Kasriel’s work with interest rate spreads and leading economic indicators. Paul notes that if you...

Run-don’t-walk to read Jesse Eisinger’s article, Wall Street’s Next Crisis: "In their own way, however,...

For the third time in four months, and 4th time in 6 months, the leading economic indicators fell signaling a slow down in the...

As per our prior post (Let the litigation begin!): Have you ever wonder why investors and counter-parties never take heed from really...

Thus, It Begins: I believe Barclays is now the first big plaintiff against the major Wall Street brokerage houses. The United Kingdom...

This is our fourth (and final) in a series of gift ideas for the holidays (parts one and two and three are here) As previously mentioned,...

Part of an interesting series at Google: Paul Krugman. If you don’t know who he is, Krugman writes a twice-weekly column for the...

The Rich really are different — as today’s chart porn reveals. It has to do with inflation — the High Cost of Living...

I suspected something was awry when I could not post a comment to my own blog — I was blocked as a spammer. To those of you who...

Since the Housing market peaked in August 2005, we have argued that reported home sale prices dramatically understate the actual price...