Submitted by Businomics Blog
We’re using less gasoline:

The most important thing to know about energy demand is that time lags are long.  When prices rise, we tend to keep doing what we’ve been doing.  We tend to view price changes as transitory, not warranting a substantial change.  That’s critical because we only have a small capacity […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

1. According to annual BLS data on manufacturing productivity, there was a 30% in productivity from 1993 (before NAFTA passed) to 2005, following a period of flat productivity growth from 1985-1992 (see top chart above, click to enlarge).
2. According to BLS data on manufacturing employment, there was an increase of almost one […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

“We’re going to take a hard look at NAFTA, which has a lot of problems,” Hillary Clinton said. “We’re going to renegotiate it.”
“If you travel through Ohio and you travel through communities in my home state of Illinois, you will see entire cities that have been devastated as a consequence of trade […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
The power of diversifying across asset classes has rarely been more convincing than it was last month. Perhaps even more notable is the fact that the winners and losers of late are beginning to reflect the longer term trend.
Consider the table below, which ranks February’s total return among the major asset […]

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