Economy Blog

HPT has blown up his account for at least the 6th time. :-(…
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The global surge in food and energy prices is being driven primarily by fundamental market conditions, rather than an investment bubble…
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‘Inflation expectations are well-contained!’ - this is the prayer that Ben Bernanke offers up five times every night to the gods of fiat currency. Unfortunately, slowly but surely, increasing oil prices……
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America may well be only halfway through the house-price bust…
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How do you spot companies that could potentially rise 100% in price? BusinessWeek asked experts for some advice and their favorite stock picks…
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Profits are threatened as sales fall, and wages and input costs rise.…
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Consumer price growth remains strong in the Czech Republic.…
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Markets to focus on the release of April inflation data.…
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There are signs that the financial market crisis is easing. Financial institutions are starting to offload bad loans and recapitalize. The pain to the real economy and the corporate sector however, may still lie ahead.…
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It’s tornado season here in Ohio.

This afternoon as a few funnel clouds were forming miles from my house, I received a call from my mother living in Florida. Seems she was not about to wait for her son to make his yearly Mother’s Day call as she had urgent news. CNN and other news outlets were reporting funnel clouds and tornados in central Ohio, with my county noted as a likely target. This was sometime before 2:00. I turned on the TV and hit the web for detailed updates. Luckily, the storms overhead passed without even a significant touchdown.
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Demand for U.S. dollar returning.…
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India?s industrial output for March was up 3% y/y, compared with a strong increase of 8.6% in February. Moody?s Economy.com had expected a rise of 6.9% in production during March.…
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(May 11, 2008 07:28 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Arthur Brooks, of Gross National Happiness fame, is now guest blogging for Freakonomics. So this seems like the perfect time……
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(May 11, 2008 07:15 PM, by Arnold Kling) My guess is that Barack Obama just casually made this remark. I believe in our ability to perfect this union……
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PIMCO’s Chris Dialynas was one of the pioneers of portable alpha. But his Epilogue to a new book on the topic reflects his concern with the direction it has taken….
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But the slowdown in trade will discourage Beijing from strengthening the yuan.…
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