Yearly Archives: 2016

Worthy Reads: These Trends Could Spell Trouble for Wall Street

Facebook Reinvents the Wheel in News (Business Insider) Negative Rates Savage Bank Employment (WSJ) Three Trends the Could Spell Trouble for Wall Street (Forbes) Weak Dollar Boosts...

Capital Goods Orders Look Toppy

New orders for capital goods, excluding aircraft have a toppy look.

Dan Mitchell: Lessons from State Tax Policy

Here Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute discusses why some states deserve kudos for their tax policies, and some states deserve mockery. Just like with...

Worthy Reads: The $2 Trillion Stock

The $2 Trillion Stock (WSJ) Americans Prefer Saving over Spending (yahoo finance) Here's What's Keeping the Stock Market Up (Fortune) High Speed Traders Takeover Treasury Market (Business...

The Monday Melee: Home Sales Sputter

New Home Sales Slide Again For the third month in a row sales of new homes have fallen. The AP reports: "New-home sales slipped 1.5 percent...

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The Power of a Compound Interest Table

The principles written about here are as true today...

Federal Reserve President James Bullard on Fed’s Dual Mandate

James Bullard comments on the Fed’s dual mandate. Mr....

Bitcoin: Understanding the Cryto-Currency

Find out what you need to know about Bitcoin...

Hydrogen Trains on the Rails in Germany

Is hydrogen power the next evolution of railroading? In...

The Six Trillion Dollar Man

Just how much taxpayer money is Joe Biden going...

65 Years of Compounding: March 18, 2026 – No Changes

The article below was written about me way back...

US Cold-Storage Market Faces Oversupply Shakeout

The US cold‑storage sector is working off a pandemic‑era...

106% Profits—in Bonds

With stocks rising virtually uninterrupted since the end of...

Who’s the Sucker?

This story doesn't have a happy ending. You see...

Bitcoin Mania

Is there a Bitcoin Mania? When we posted on...