Facebook’s Fatal Flaw Exposed
Has he gone mad? Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO announced this week that his social networking company is buying Instagram. Facebook is paying $1 billion—a...
Jobless Claims Spike: Will the Fed Overreact?
According to today’s report, initial claims for jobless benefits spiked to 380,000, the highest since January (See chart below). Compounding the fear about the...
VIDEO: U.S. Is Losing Its Competitiveness, Ferguson Says
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April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Niall Ferguson, a history professor at Harvard University and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks about the U.S. economy. He...
Gas Prices Threaten the Economy
Tight global oil supplies and tensions with Iran (among other factors) have pushed retail gasoline prices back above $4 per gallon. When gasoline prices...
FOMC Minutes Paint a Dismal Picture for Savers
If you were unlucky enough to have to read the minutes of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) released yesterday, you may have...
Manufacturers Giving Markets Mixed Signals
The ISM Manufacturing Report on Business was released this morning and produced a composite index result that was slightly better than a survey of...
America’s Standard of Living at Stake
Are consumers confused? Earlier this week the Conference-Board’s Consumer Confidence index fell slightly on concerns consumers have over the short-term health of the economy....
Economic Mirages
Yesterday the markets were looking for the Durable Goods report to show an increase of 3% in new orders. The numbers disappointed however, with...
Hubris and Monetary Policy: A Toxic Mix
I stumbled upon this video of Laurence Meyer, the Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Macroeconomic Advisers, a mainstream economic modeling and forecasting firm....
Retirement No Time for Whipsaw Portfolio Volatility
A basic understanding of the arithmetic of portfolio losses can help you become a more comfortable confident investor. Our chart of the arithmetic of...