Submitted by A Dash of Insight
At “A Dash” we are advocates of a careful, balanced consideration of economic data.  We accept the results whether they are hopeful or dismal.  We do not shift our chosen indicators with the wind.  Investors should do the same.
Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture, one of our featured sites, has […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
Consumers say they’re gloomy, but why are they still spending?

A surprising report from the Commerce Department today, which indicated that seasonally adjusted nominal sales for retail trade and food services were 1% higher in May compared with April. The new estimates of March and April sales (in red in the figure below) were […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
These are strange days in the global capital and commodity markets. The macroeconomic terrain isn’t quite familiar either. No wonder, then, that central banking isn’t quite itself either.
The weird aura is second to none in these United States, where the Federal Reserve is battling, among other things, a bout of the […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
A CD post yesterday linked to a Wichita Eagle story about Walgreens becoming the first national retailer to bring in-store, walk-in clinics to the Wichita market.
Who would possibly object to low-cost, convenient, patient-friendly, market-driven, retail health care clinics in Wichita?
The local AMA cartel of course, aka the Medical Society of Sedgwick County, […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Washington Post editorial in 1987 in support of drilling in ANWR (see picture above):

That part of ANWR is one of the bleakest, most remote places on this continent, and there is hardly any other where drilling would have less impact on the surrounding life.
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The president of the Futures Industry Association, John Damgard, answers that question in this FT.com video.
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Cuba took another leap away from Fidel Castro’s creaky egalitarian model yesterday when it swept away the wage restraints that have kept surgeons and taxi drivers on much the same salaries for the past 50 years. The latest and most dramatic liberalisation by Raul Castro appears to be aimed at bringing to […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
There’s probably more oil spilled in a Wal-Mart parking lot on a daily basis from oil seeping out of cars than on the North Slope.

~Dave Dittman, Anchorage pollster, quoted in The Juneau Empire

Note: The North Slope of Alaska is home to Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in North America (containing approximately […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
In all of the recent discussion about opening up America’s vast energy resources, what has received the most attention is the potential effect on oil and gas prices. But there are two other important issues that have not received much attention - the effect of domestic oil development on: a) jobs and […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From the Witchita-based Flint Hills Center for Public Policy’s recent study “Adding Health Care to Your Shopping List: The Emergence of In-Store Clinics”:
Kansas is one of many states across the country considering ways to reform its health care system. With the number of uninsured a top concern, the debate centers on how […]

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