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In my last post I showed some charts, some pulled from FRED and others from a Microsoft function called STOCKHISTORY. I am going to write about STOCKHISTORY because it is a new function and somewhat interesting. You can use STOCKHISTORY to pull historical data for a stock or for an index such as Dow Jones…
I thought I would revisit the tariffs and prices since there have been quite a few protests and irate town halls. What are people protesting? Well, three comes to mind: 1) DOGE cutting essential services that people use; 2) the deportation without due process; and 3) tariffs. The topic of prices has not been specifically…
So… it looks like we may be sliding towards purgatory. The administration launched the long-feared tariff wars. Maybe the economists and the finance types in the administration knows something that the rest of us don’t or they have a rabbit to pull out of a magic hat. My only understanding of the tariffs is that…
Last week, I did a post about AI versus Humans in the forecasting arena. This week I aim to share the story with a different slant: the power of visuals. I used the game of predicting the Oscars as a way of presenting the value of using visuals in some cases. Quite often in my…
We all do some form of budgeting, but when I looked back into my career history, it was interesting to see how the budgeting process varied. It almost seemed like there were different types of budgeting. Historical Based Budgeting When I was younger, this type of budgeting was probably the most common. The way it…
I don’t know if “predatory” is the right adjective to describe behavior I see but it is what comes to mind. I seem to see more and more predatory behavior in companies every day. Are we going into an era of corruption? We’ve always had corruption but maybe not at a level seen in recent…
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