Submitted by EconWeekly
According to a study released yesterday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the endowment fund of Harvard University is worth $34.6 billion, a 19.8% percent higher than a year ago. 76 colleges and universities sit on endowments over $1b. Even more impressively, almost every one of the 733 […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Using recent data, it would appear on its face that the Democratic proposal to raise taxes on the upper-income earners, and lower taxes on the middle- and lower- income earners, will result in huge revenue losses on both accounts (see diagram above, click to enlarge).
~Arthur Laffer in today’s WSJ, “The Tax Threat […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

The chart above (click to enlarge) shows pay around the world for the positions “Head of Marketing and Sales” and “Data-Entry Operator,” according to Mercer. Also listed is the cost of living rank and expected pay increase in 2008.
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From Business Week (1/17/2008): “Big Blue has built a global network for client services and in the past three years has hired 90,000 people in low-cost countries.”
Of IBM’s 375,000 employees worldwide, about 2/3 of them (250,000) are outside the U.S., see the map above (click to enlarge) with a sampling of […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Sometimes it’s best to let the numbers do the talking. Without further adieu, we offer the following statistical recap on the 10-year Treasury yield, its counterpart in the 10-year real yield a.k.a. TIPS, and the spread between the two.

As always, minds will differ as to the implications of the above chart, […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Political rhetoric: According to Governor Jennifer Granholm, “No state has been ravaged more than Michigan by unfair trade policies.”
Economic reality: China’s demand for Michigan vehicles and auto parts has exploded and has grown by a factor of 10X since 2001 (see chart above), and demand has also increased for other Michigan exports […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

The chart above shows the number of new claims for unemployment benefits in the first month of the last four official recessions using data from the Department of Labor (claims) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (recession dates).
At the onset of each of the last four recessions (1980, 1981, 1990 […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
Systems and ETF trading have taken a back seat to news and fundamentals in this wild week. We will post the final results for the most recent cycle, along with some comments, in the near future.
The TCA-ETF system signaled a sell for the final position of this cycle. […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
The First Amendment gives everyone the right to free speech and assembly. This means that it is just fine to criticize government. Especially during the last year, a favorite sport among financial pundits has been second-guessing the Fed.
Discussing policy can be fun, but it is not the road […]

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