The Big Picture

Nothing to see here folks. No worries about oil prices at all. Move along . . . WSJ: “High oil prices have preceded or coincided...

Um, no. An Online WSJournal article asks that question. The writer dutifully reported what the people she interviewed said. That’s...

Interesting discussion at the Economist on which countries are particularly vulnerable to their residential-property boom turning to a...

WSJ: U.S. employers added 248,000 jobs in May1, the third straight month of solid job growth. Economists, who have been off by a long...

If a price cut falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, will it have any sort of economic consequences? Apparently, not: WSJ: “The...

Good payroll numbers — not too hot, not too cold. They beat the consensus (215k), but were below some of the more outlandish...

Here’s a nice little surprise: “The average retail price of full-length CDs fell to $13.29 in the first quarter of...

A professional acquaintance I know (who abhors the limelight) has written the most thorough fisking of the ISM data I have ever seen:...

Interesting Wall Street Journal piece on the fluid situation in the midwest, where the unemployment rates in 5 battleground states...

How big an impact will Ralph Nader have in the 2004 Presidential Election? Regardless of whether you think Nader cost the Dems the last...