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 [...]
Okay, you’ve probably seen this already (I just came across it on the Fake Steve Ballmer blog). But it’s never too late to share a viral video, right? Even a high-gloss, star-studded viral video manufactured by one of the world’s richest corporations:
Jonathan Cohn (via the guy with the office next to mine, who for some reason hasn’t been around much lately) has a piece in The New Republic in which he explains that Mitt Romney’s economic message seems to be resonating with Michigan voters more than John McCain’s (or Mike Huckabee’s, for that matter). After New [...]
Here’s the ad currently running across the top of my gmail inbox: Mike Huckabee in 2008 – www.mikehuckabee.com – Mike Supports the FairTax. Read What Mike Has To Say.
You may have read the headlines already this morning: Retail sales fell 0.4%. It’s worse than the flat December that economists were predicting, and it’s another nail in the coffin of the U.S. economy–to go with the rise in unemployment reported earlier this month. Surely we’re in a recession now. Except that, when you go [...]
Citigroup’s earnings release this morning is full of all sorts of interesting things beyond just that headline $9.83 billion fourth quarter loss. I imagine the most revealing stuff will be buried in the 10-Q that comes out later, and unearthed by people far more expert than I. Although as earnings releases go, this one is [...]
Over on Swampland, Ana Marie reports from the Great and Economically Struggling State of Michigan that Romney and McCain have made economic policy a focus of their primary battle there, even though their ideas to help the state are pretty much the same: As small government conservatives, neither man supports the kinds of targeted incentives [...]
