This site under reconstruction.
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…
The latest predictions for 2025 summer/fall season are that the hurricane season will be above average but not as intense as last year. One article has 125% above average. So, I guess it will be a little bit better than last year but still dreadful. However, one of the article appears contradictory: on one hand,…
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…
There is something that I don’t talk much about: ethics in AI. Fortunately, it has not been much of a problem largely because I am not using AI to write for me. But… I did encounter an instance where there was a webinar to show how to use ChatGPT to gather contact information in virtual…
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…