There are few things that make us more annoyed than bad data, lazy thinking or poor analysis. This weekend, the National Retail...
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Our discussion of Credit Card usage leads us review this: Since 2000, American households have spent more than they earned – a...
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I always try to post a "How-To" on Sundays, as the slower pace of the weekend allows for some quiet contemplation. Given the...
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A quick note on the start of the holiday shopping season. Three elements are apparent: 1) Data shows a (slightly) softer start to the...
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The usually terrific Floyd Norris puts forth an interesting but somewhat flawed thesis in Friday’s NYT about Gold; it has some odd...
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Tony Crescenzi came up with this list of net positives for the shopping season; He calls these factors likely to boost holiday sales this...
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On the possibility that the year end rally isn’t all that: "On the wild assumption that those nearly universal bullish...
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A quick post before hitting the street (and musuems and outlet shops and Best Buy and . . . ) Two inopposite data points came out this...
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Very interesting analysis by Robert H. Frank — in addition to being an economics Prof at Cornell, he is the coauthor a textbook...
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click graphic for podcast Yesterday, I did a podcast with Larry Kudlow about the holiday shopping season. Its posted online now. Despite...
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