This site under reconstruction.
Yes, he’s done enough. Although it is kind of funny watching his face evoke misery as he says he’s done enough, it is also rather disturbing watching him go off the rails. I don’t know if he suffers permanent damage to his reputation or whether he survives this period. It’s too soon to make that…
April job statistics came out and unemployment hovers around 4.2%. But another group who analyzes employment says unemployment is actually around 24.2%. This other group are measuring the “functionally unemployed”. What accounts for the discrepancy between the group and the Bureau of Labor? Well, the group LISEP (Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity) includes in…
In finance, we are usually reporting what has already happened. The financial results are usually lagging indicators. But typically we want to be aware of leading indicators so that we can pounce on opportunities or head off disasters. Which is why we want operational or economic data upstream of the reporting results. Shipping information as…
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…