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Schrödinger's Cat and the S&P 500 26 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
What a boring week! The week ending on 23 August 2013 was a week in which the Fed's officials very clearly went out of their way to not make any noise as they jetted off to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for ...
Summer 2013: Who Really Owns the U.S. National Debt? 23 Aug 2013 | 05:10 pm
It's time again to check in on who really owns the U.S. national debt. This edition of our occasional series is different however, because the official size of the U.S. national debt hasn't meaningful...
The Relative Productivity of Private vs Public Sector Employees 22 Aug 2013 | 02:28 pm
"How does the compensation of federal civilian employees compare with that of employees in the private sector?" is a question that the Congressional Budget Office once asked and answered, finding that...
Mapping the Income for Welfare vs Work 21 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
According to a study by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes, the money that people can make on welfare in many states is more than they can make in an entry-level job. And in some states, it's more than...
Summer 2013 Snapshot of Expected Future S&P 500 Earnings 20 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
Since we last looked at the S&P 500's expected trailing twelve-month earnings per share some three months ago, the future for the S&P 500's forecast earnings has grown dim. We can see that's the case...
How the Timing of the Tapering Is Driving Stock Prices 19 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
Why is the prospect of the Fed acting to taper off its purchases of securities in its current Quantitative Easing (QE) program appear to be driving stock prices lower? Keep in mind that even though t...
Inventions in Everything: Solid Rain 16 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
Do you remember the Stephen Wright joke about powdered water? The one that goes: I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it. Thanks to the efforts of chemical engineer Sergio J...
The Twenty Percent President 15 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
According to the carefully crafted plan of the Obama administration, there would be one million electric cars cruising around America's streets and highways by 2015. According to the plan, almost half...
The Power of Quantitative Easing 14 Aug 2013 | 02:23 pm
Now that the BEA has released its massive revision of the United States' Gross Domestic Product, we're going to put our Keynesian-style GDP multiplier tool to the test. Will it still be able to accura...
U.S.-China Trade: Two Nations in Near Recession? 13 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
In June 2013, the year-over-year growth rate of the value of trade between China and the United States was such that both nations' economies could be considered to be in recession. That's the conclus...
