7/9/09 - Bloomberg - Roubini Says U.S. Recession Will Last Six More Months ( Click here for video ) July 9 ( Bloomberg ) — Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and Robert Shiller, … Read More
In April and May, National Public Radio featured a series on inexpensive gourmet dishes entitled How Low Can You Go?” Although many of the dishes looked quite tasty, most of the dishes weren’t actually all that inexpensive, often narrowly getting … Read More
First the market … Click on graph for larger image in new window. This graph is from Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner): “Four Bad Bears”. Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others … Read More
From Robert Reich: When Will The Recovery Begin? Never. (ht Bob Dobbs ) The so-called “green shoots” of recovery are turning brown in the scorching summer sun. In fact, the whole debate about when and how a recovery will begin … Read More
This post is by Mark Dow This just hit my inbox, from the research team at Barclays. Since we’ve talked a fair amount of late about the Fed balance sheet, I thought I’d pass it on. “Weekly Federal Reserve balance … Read More
Yesterday I posted this information with an incorrect email address for Cathy. She can be reached at: stickelc@live.com CR note: This is from Tanta’s sister Cathy. For new readers, to find out about Tanta, please see Tanta: In Memoriam . … Read More
SEC data guy brings us some interesting data on SEC filings with companies expressing: “Substantial Doubt” Below is a graph that shows the total number of distinct entities filing a 10-K or 10-Q over time. It also shows the number … Read More
This is Mark Dow. Brad is away. China has become the obsession that Japan was back in the 80s. And rightly so. It is a huge place, with a robust secular growth force underlying it (remember the conditional convergence growth … Read More
From MarketWatch: July UMichigan consumer sentiment falls to 64.6 U.S. consumer sentiment fell sharply in early July, according to a survey released Friday by the University of Michigan and Reuters. Sentiment fell to 64.6 from 70.8 in June. Click on … Read More
A reader asked me if I could break down my ideas into a handful of principles. After some careful thought, I came up with a list of fourteen basic “rules” that summarize my money and life philosophy. I’ll be presenting … Read More