Archive for April 2nd, 2008
Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
OSLO is the priciest city in the world to live in according to The Economist. In its latest twice-yearly index of over 130 cities, in which 160 items are assessed, Norway’s capital has been the costliest since 2005, when it toppled Tokyo from the top spot. European cities dominate the list, reflecting […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Columbia Journalism Review–At the end of the day, Wikipedia looks less like the reputation-munching monster it’s being portrayed as, and more like the future of information in the Internet age.
Professor Mark Goodacre, Duke University–It is becoming fashionable among academics these days to have a go at Wikipedia. This is inevitable for a […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Annual Growth of Total Bank Credit Through March 19, 2008:
Annual Growth of Total Loans and Leases through March 19, 2008
Annual Growth of Commercial Loans Through March 19, 2008
Source: Federal Reserve via the St. Louis Fed.
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by The Capital Spectator
It comes as no surprise to learn that volatility in the capital and commodity markets has been rising of late. Confusion and uncertainty (both of which have been in surplus in recent months with regards to economics and finance) typically sow the seeds of wider trading ranges. Monitoring volatility is no […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by Econbrowser
Automobile sales do not bode well for first-quarter GDP.
U.S. sales of cars manufactured in North America rose 16% between February and March. However, that’s a substantially smaller increase than we’d expect to see this time of year. Sales were down 7.7% compared with March 2007, and that represents a clear acceleration of the […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
In recent decades, as foreign trade and investment have been rising as a share of the U.S. economy, recessions have actually become milder and less frequent (see chart above, click to enlarge). The softening of the business cycle has become so striking that economists now refer to it as “The Great Moderation.”
For […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by The Capital Spectator
In yesterday’s post, we fumbled the analysis in comparing asset class returns for March and February. The total return numbers in the tables were accurate all along; it was the text in the second paragraph of the April 1 post that was wrong. A correction now appears. Sorry.
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to John Lott.
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
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According to March auto sales data released today by Motor Intelligence, the market share of the Big Three automakers fell to a new record low of 47% in March 2008, down from 53% last year (see chart above).
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to Federal Reserve banking data (via the St. Louis Fed) released yesterday, “weekly bank credit of all commercial banks” hit an all-time record high of $9.49 trillion on March 19, 2008. What’s even more impressive though is the growth in total bank credit measured as the “percent change from a year […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by Businomics Blog
In May 2007, I titled a post, “Is China’s Stock Market Overvalued?” I closed with these words:
“… don’t get carried away with the momentum play. It may work early in the cycle, but momentum investors always get burned when the market changes.
Let’s take a look and see what happened. The date of […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
Submitted by A Dash of Insight
One of the reasons we moved from the academic world to the investment world was the potential for profiting from widely-held mis-perceptions. Such situations abound in the current political and market environment. Investors who understand this can have a field day.
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