The Big Picture

Barron’s picks up Tuesday’s piece, Between a Rock and a Hard Place. I like the renaming on their part: “The Pig is...

While we have been discussing how tight the Presidential race is — along with some of the deficiencies of the polling agencies...

The market got creamed today. Dow off triple digits, Nasdaq down almost 2%, S&P500 rocked. So where are all the Political...

Business Week has an extensive chat about Accelerated Depreciation of Capital Spending with your humble scribe. Recall that we discussed...

Terrific comparo by the WSJ on the bias statement released by the Fed. Note the key phrase is “appears to have regained some...

The Fed meets today to discuss their inflation expectations (see nearby chart), and the gradual end of their policy of accommodation....

Technimentals inflation model has been shifting higher for 2 years, mostly on the heels of escalating energy prices. Most of its...

The Wall Street Journal shows the race even tighter than several other polls. They note the electoral college tally is 297 to 241, in...

Interesting front page article in the WSJ today by John Harwood, especially for those of us with a quantitative bend. The crux of the...

“Why has Europe lagged so far behind the United States in productivity?” That’s the question a new study by Proudfoot...