PIG debt trades poorly into their close
Into their close, Greek, Portuguese and Irish debt are all selling off. The Irish 10 yr is now at a new record high above 7% and their 5...
Long Term Growth Trend DJIA
A great pair of really long term charts from Ron Griess of The Charts Store, looking at the long term trend in the Dow: > click for...
Economic data
The Oct ISM manufacturing index was better than expected at 56.9 vs the estimate of 54, up from 54.4 in Sept and is at the best level...
MERS Cases Overview
Be sure to see the overview of MERS legal cases in the Think Tank: “As the mortgage meltdown has spread and deepened nationwide,...
Animators of Life: Where Cinema and Biology Meet
http://www.youtube.com/user/XVIVOAnimation Dr. Lue is one of the pioneers of molecular animation, a rapidly growing field that seeks to...
Income/Spending both light
After seeing the upside surprise in the personal spending component in Q3 GDP on Friday, the actual Sept reading was below estimates...
Forecast: House & Senate Races
The excellent fivethirtyeight blog — who produced very accurate forecasts for the 2008 elections — crunches the numbers to...
Is the Stock Market a Discounting Mechanism Par Excellent?
> THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Investment letter – October 16, 2010 IS THE STOCK MARKET A DISCOUNTING MECHANISM PAR EXCELLENCE? Hardly a day...
Economic data may be only thing not priced in this week
While most of the focus of the week will be on the elections and the FOMC meeting, assuming no surprises, the results of both have been...
Voting: In Your Self-Interest, Or Against It?
Invictus here, gang, with a little pre-election number crunching. I posted recently on the explosive growth in the use of food stamps,...