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Terrific charts via Freddy Hutter of Trendlines Research, showing long term structural deficits. > Effect of Structural Deficits on...

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Joseph Saluzzi (jsaluzzi-at-ThemisTrading.com) and Sal L. Arnuk (sarnuk-at-ThemisTrading.com) are co-heads of the equity trading desk at...

I’ve previously mentioned the Dollar Redesign project from Richard Smith. Every now and again, a new design catches my eye. Dowling...

Aug New Home sales, a measure of contract signings now 4 months removed from the home buying tax credit, was 7k units below expectations...

Apropos of our earlier Volcker discussion, consider this classic an indictment of the Business Schools Tall Paul referenced: > Via...

Insight on her appointment to the new consumer protection agency, with Elizabeth Warren, assistant to President Obama. She seems so...

I’ve been talking about the rise in commodity prices for a while now (CRB raw industrials sub index was up yesterday for the 8th...

Peter T Treadway, PhD Historical Analytics LLC www.thedismaloptimist.com September 23, 2010 > The legendary Muhammad Ali developed a...

“Normal distribution curves — if I would submit to you — do not exist in financial markets. Its not that they are fat tails,...