Submitted by CARPE DIEM
On Tuesday in Togliatti, Russia, I toured the production facility of the Chevy Niva (pictured above), a joint venture between GM and Russia’s AutoVAZ. The vehicles are one of the best-selling SUVs in Russia right now, and there is a 3-month waiting list to get the vehicles. This situation is somewhat […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Has the maximum point of stress in the capital markets passed?
There’s no one measure for answering the question. In fact, there’s no convincing answer short of letting time pass. But for those looking for a bit of perspective in real time, among the worthy gauges to watch in search of clues […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
Judging from some of the reactions across the blogosphere (not to mention any number of our own dear readers), maybe I should take another stab at clarifying why I see the hand of the Federal Reserve in the most recent movements in oil and commodity prices.

Let’s start with Free Exchange, who had this […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Blogging From Moscow: It is well-known here that Russians often get discounts to museums, cathedrals and other culturally important national and historic landmarks. But how do Russians get the discount?

One common method here of price discrimination is illustrated in the picture above (click to enlarge), which shows a sign at St. […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
Here is a simple and honest proposition:  Data interpretation should lead to conclusions, not the reverse.
If an analyst believes that an indicator is important, and trumpets news about that indicator, it is intellectually dishonest to abandon the measure when it moves the other way.
If one endorses the Baltic Dry Freight […]

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