Spammers terminated With Extreme Prejudice
I’ve been getting deluged with Spam Comments and Trackbacks lately. In an effort to keep this site from turning into little more...
New Column up at Real Money (07/15/05)
My latest Real Money column, "The Fundamentals Stink: Buy Stocks" is posted. It is loosely based on yesterday’s...
A word about “Tipping Points”
A word about tipping points: As much as I want to avoid using cliches, "tipping point," is such an economical phrase, I ask you...
The Oil Uproar That Isn’t
I’ve been meaning to point to NYT article — and an even better chart — from earlier this week: "For Americans, oil...
The Fly in the Martini
This week’s snark comes to us directly via Barron’s Alan Abelson, who is less than enthused about the recently released...
Media Appearance: Kudlow & Company (07/15/05)
A quick heads up: I will be on Kudlow & Company tonite at 5pm. Its for 2 segments, and the topics will include the Economy,...
Data Point Versus Data Series
Its important to recall that economic data – indeed, any data series – is not a snapshot, but a moving picture. And even moving...
Apprenticed Investor: Nothing Doing
The latest "Apprenticed Investor" column is up, and its titled (apropos of nothing in particular) Nothing Doing. In it, we look...
FreakEconomics of Smoking
I have not yet read the widely applauded Freakonomics, but its in my queu. Here’s a decidely non-Freakonomics look at smoking....
Personal Income Quality Improving?
EPI noted in a June research piece — reported Monday in the WSJ — that "job quality has begun to recover:"...