Submitted by CARPE DIEM
As the newspaper industry—and print media in general—struggle to survive in the age of digital news, the business has found an unlikely ally: the nation’s gravest housing crisis in recent memory.
While newspaper executives have for years complained that online resources—like Craigslist—are cutting deep into their classified advertisement revenue, the foreclosure crisis has […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Post-production movie work — everything from complex digital effects (such as the talking armoured polar bears that appeared in The Golden Compass, one of which sported a fur coat with seven million individually rendered hairs) to basic colour grading (making sure shades stay consistent throughout a film) — is steadily migrating from […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Dividend yields don’t tell you everything, but they tell you a lot. Sometimes.
A fair number of studies over the years find that the correlation between yield and subsequent return over the next five years and beyond is strong enough to convince fair-minded investors to watch those yields for clues about what’s […]

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Submitted by Businomics Blog
My new forecast (dated May 5, 2008) looks a little brighter: no negative quarters for GDP.

My bottoms-up approach has recently been giving me more optimistic forecasts than I expect.  Recently, more optimistic than I had expected has worked out well.  I think the Fed is about done cutting interest rates, and long-term […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
The trend is clear: demand is down and complaints are up.

U.S. sales of cars manufactured in North America actually rose 1.3% in April 2008 compared with the same month the previous year.

But sales of domestic light trucks, which includes the once-almighty SUV category, fell 20.6% in April, even more dramatic than the 18.3% […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“In the real world, a sense of grievance or entitlement, as a result of the mistreatment of your ancestors, is not likely to get you very far with people who are too busy dealing with current economic realities to spend much time thinking about their own ancestors, much less other people’s ancestors.”
~Thomas […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Based on futures trading on Intrade.com (see chart above, click to enlarge) for the most “predicted recession in U.S. history that will never come to pass” (First Trust Advisors).
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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
There are many Wall Street adages.  Some seem to have predictive power, including the idea that one should “sell in May and go away.”
Such slogans have extra influence because of the catchy, alliterative qualities.
When Indicators Conflict
There are a number of conflicting adages at the moment.
There is the Presidential Election Cycle. […]

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