Take it easy! The Ease of Doing Business Index click for interactive map Source: FRED How this map was created: In GeoFRED, select “Build New Map.” In the tools menu, click “Data” and search for...
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Can a central bank steer the housing market? Not so long ago, Sweden's Riksbank decided: no. Now, there's a risk that decision may backfire as the biggest property market in Scandinavia risks sinking into a correction.
The evidence of price...
Despite earning $23,000/year [as a stipend], you'd pay taxes on $40,520 or $57,914 at a public University [including waived tuition], and despite earning $32,500, you'd pay taxes on $81,440 at a private University. For this last figure, this...
Very interesting analysis on how green hybrid, electric and petrol cars actually are: “According to data from the Trancik Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Tesla Model S P100D...
Apparently the DaVinci code is get lost for a few centuries, then smash records at auction. My morning train UTOG reads: • The Risk Of Estimating Risk (CapitalSpectator) • George Will: Roy Moore...
click for live radio I am back in the studio this morning, co-hosting with Tom Keene for the full show today. Our line up looks like this: 7:00 Kathy Fisher, AB Bernstein Private Wealth...
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If we felt empowered in daily life, would we be so enamored of superheroes constantly saving our world from destruction?
It's been widely noted that the U.S. film industry ably functions as a pro-global hegemony propaganda machine: even when the...
One year after the presidential election, John Oliver discusses what we’ve learned so far and enlists our catheter cowboy to teach Donald Trump what he hasn’t. The Trump Presidency: Last Week...
Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, came out against both chambers' tax plans on Wednesday, deploring the hurried process and saying that the bills favored corporations over small businesses and other so-called pass-through entities,...
Nothing Trump Does Can Save Coal Don’t blame liberals and regulations; blame capitalism and technology. Bloomberg, November 15, 2017 On the campaign trail and in the White House, Donald Trump...
``It's not yet clear what the fee structure will be or if there are daily buying or selling limits, or who Square is using as a liquidity provider for the transactions. Jack Dorsey has spoken publicly about the benefits of cryptocurrency and the...
Richard Cordray, one of the few remaining Obama-era banking regulators, said on Wednesday that he plans to step down as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the end of the month, clearing the way for President Trump to remake a...
``Flows into credit-card and auto loans delinquencies rose, with 4.6% of credit card debt 90 days or more delinquent, up from 4.4% in the second quarter, and 2.4% of auto loan debt seriously delinquent, up from 2.3%. That's still nowhere near the...
``The world's richest 1% of families and individuals hold over half of global wealth, according to a new report from Credit Suisse. The report suggests inequality is still worsening some eight years after the worst global recession in decades......
Check it out: Two of the smartest guys in finance have launched a new podcast, called Animal Spirits. Forgive me if I am slightly biased: Michael Batnick (blog, Twitter) is RWM‘s Director of...
My midweek morning train reads: • Wall Street’s Invasion of the Legal Weed Market (Institutional Investor) • FAANG SCHMAANG: Don’t Blame the Over-valuation of the S&P Solely on Information...
Interesting: The interactive brain is a very good resource: Source: Brain Facts
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Stock Market Valuation and the Macroeconomy Kevin J. Lansing FRBSF Economic Letter, November 13, 2017 History suggests that extreme run-ups in the cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio...
Needless but highly profitable forced-upgrades are the bread and butter of the tech industry.
One of the enduring mysteries in conventional economics (along with why wages for the bottom 95% have stagnated) is the recent decline in productivity...
A interview with billionaire and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. In this interview Jeff discusses how Amazon became the giant it is today and what made it so successful, including his key...
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