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How Bad was Industrial Production in October?

Dec 22, 2009
This appeared in Financial Express today. In India, many people look at year-on-year changes to track the state of the economy. This indicator has important weaknesses. It is the moving average of the change seen in the latest twelve months and is...

Texas Adds Nearly 70,000 Jobs

Dec 22, 2009
Last month we predicted that jobs growth would likely begin to return by Christmas. Now Texas data confirms that jobs growth is on the way. Seasonally adjusted data from the Texas Workforce Commission shows that during October and November, the...

An Upsurge in Inflation?

Dec 21, 2009
There is a lot of concern about inflation. Most of it is based on perusing the following numbers of the year-on-year changes in price indexes: Jul Aug Sep Oct CPI (IW) 11.9 11.7 11.6 11.5 WPI -0.7 -0.2 0.5 1.3 WPI Food 13.3 14.0 15.7 13.4 WPI...

Nasdaq Now Up Nearly 75% From 2009 Low

Dec 21, 2009
Earlier, we looked at what the current “dead cat bounce” meant for the Dow Jones Industrial stock index, but with a strong late Friday rally, Nasdaq Index returns have been even more impressive. Up nearly 75% since the March 10th trough, the tech...

Pigs and Power

Dec 21, 2009
Many decades ago, George Orwell wrote a book called Animal Farm. It used a farm as a metaphor for society and depicted the transformation of a productive enterprise into a totalitarian regime. The progress toward dictatorship took small steps that were...




chad c.
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