About.com economics guru (and fully signed-in Curious Capitalist commenter) Mike Moffatt looks at today’s CPI data (4.1% annual inflation in 2007!) and muses: The more I look at oil prices, gold prices, inflation and the economy, the more I believe we are starting to re-live the early 1970s. I just hope the fashions don’t come [...]
A couple weeks ago I ran a list of the ten hottest global stocks of 2007 (India! India! India!). Now here, courtesy of Joe Quinlan at Bank of America (no link, sorry), are the world’s ten best-performing stock indices (in dollar terms) since the beginning of the decade (century, millennium, whatever): 1. Ukraine PFTS Index [...]
This is from his opening statement (pdf!) at the hearing his Joint Economic Committee held this morning. And maybe I’m just getting soft in my middle age, but I think Senator Chuck is starting to sound more and more like the soul of centrist wisdom: We must enact a stimulus package that is timely, targeted, [...]
The Curious Capitalist has just been upgraded to a new version of Movable Type that requires commenters to sign in. This is not because any of you have been naughty or anything (yeah, there were a few bad words in the great FairTax debate, but that was understandable). It’s because the old version of Movable [...]
