The Saturday WSJ has an interesting overview of China; Data junky and chart whore that I am, it it simply too much for me to pass up,...
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Barron’s Alan Abelson revisits an all too familiar subject: Inflation (ex-inflation) and fun with hedonics: "Of course, the...
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"Certain price patterns are nonrandom and will lead to a predictive effect." That statement, according to the Random Walk...
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I’m travelling today, so light posting. But check out this fascinating chart regarding Capacity Utiliatization Rates, via Chart of...
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signs were appearing that Housing was cooling back in August. More recently, there was also a comprehensive front page WSJ article on the...
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The latest "Apprenticed Investor" column is up: There Are No Shortcuts. Sorry to be the one to deliver the sad news, but...
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The Federal Reserve staff of economists and researchers is supposedly there to serve the Fed Board of Governors; But they also have a...
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> In a column "Guide to the Blogs Insiders Read to Stay Current," this morning’s WSJ had some nice very things to say...
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Sony totally caved on the DRM debacle: They issued a recall of about 5 million CDs. I am pleased to have made a contribution to...
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Once again into the fray of inflation ex-inflation: Yesterday’s PPI data was not at all a net positive, despite the...
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