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Blog06/30/2014Mark Thornton

The National Association of Credit Management issued its Credit Managers Index, calling it "less than impressive."

“It now appears that the economy contracted by far more than originally reported,” NACM economist Chris Kuehl said. “Add to this the latest data on durable goods and there is...

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Krugman's MMMF Question

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Blog09/17/2012Mark Thornton

Paul Krugman attacked Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, and “Honest Money” and also took a shot at Austrian economists on his blog today. He called honest money a “Ron Paul dog whistle” and then went on...

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Show Trial Planned for Energy Markets

Financial MarketsCapital and Interest Theory

Blog05/12/2008J. Henderson

The US House of Representatives will hold hearings on energy markets trying to determine who is causing oil prices to rise. The anti-market investigation will blame hedge funds...

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We're in the double digits

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Blog04/15/2008Jeffrey A. Tucker

The Producer Price Index is out and it shows a change in intermediate goods in March 2008 from 12 months ago (unadjusted) at a 10.5% increase. This follows a 8.8% rate of increase in February and January. Focusing on energy alone, the...

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What are you investing in?

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Blog03/12/2008Jeffrey A. Tucker

This is an open thread to discuss the question I (and others) continually receive many queries about. What does your portfolio look like? What is the long-term strategy? What are you diversifying into? What are you shorting? What are you bullish about? What economic analysis tools or...

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Jonathan Lebed: criminal or just one smart stock-trading cookie?

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Blog02/10/2008Jeffrey A. Tucker

I can recall reading this article by Michael Lewis when it first appeared, but it holds up 6 years later. It is his detailed out of how a 15-year old made the big bucks on Wall Street through day trading -- until the SEC cracked down for...

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A new year coming

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Blog02/09/2008Mark Thornton

The Chinese stock markets have been closed for several days to celebrate the new year--the year of the Rat. One wonders what the Chinese market will do when they reopen. During the last three days the less volatile Japanese stock market lost 6% while the Dow lost 3%. Of course the Chinese...

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Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning

Financial MarketsFiscal Theory

Blog01/25/2008 Mises.org

Gene Epstein finds little fault with government's economic numbers and plenty of fault with the reporters and pundits who use those numbers.

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Mozilla: Meet Sarbanes-Oxley (and Henry Blodget)

Financial MarketsProduction Theory

Blog01/07/2008Jim Fedako

The insufferable Henry Blodget, the disgraced securities analyst who is barred from working in the securities industry (he met up with Eliot Spitzer), is back to his usual chatter....

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Stockpiles and Speculators

Financial MarketsMoney and Banks

Blog01/07/2008Antoin E. Murphy

Although most commentators concede that the free market does a decent job providing regular goods and services day in and day out, for some reason they believe that when it comes to unlikely but catastrophic events, government intervention is necessary. An excellent example of this misguided...