Is Apple going to $1,000 per share and dragging the market higher with it?
Sometimes one chart tells us more than a thicket of charts. Every analyst and punter seeks an “edge” by plotting and comparing innumerable indicators, ratios, correlat…
Is the U.S. really a post-oil economy?
One way to gauge the real economy is to look at charts of the GDP, wages, household debt and the price of oil; another way is to correlate all of these on one chart. The following chart (courtesy of freq…
If this rally runs out of steam, history suggests the next move down could plumb depths not seen in years.
If the market rolls over here, the next bottom might be a lot lower than most players think possible. After all, the “news” is all posi…
Beautifully maintained trophy cars are being dumped for cash. What does that say about the “real” economy?
Everybody has their own “on the ground” recession indicators: the mall parking lot, the tony restaurant that used to be packed every we…
Crony capitalism uses its wealth to impose government regulations designed to hinder, cripple and destroy small business competitors.
In the U.S. we now have the perfection of cloaked crony capitalism: corporate cartels use their vast concent…
If you make it increasingly costly and risky to open a small enterprise, then no wonder unemployment remains high.
You hear a lot about Kafkaesque stifling bureaucracy in Greece and other struggling European nations, but America’s Status Quo is tr…
Charting gasoline prices against income and GDP provides some interesting results.
Since rapidly rising gasoline prices are in the news, let’s look at some charts of gasoline and the economy, courtesy of frequent contributor B.C. These depi…
Has the centralized nation-state model of global capitalism finally reached its autumn?
Predicting the end of Capitalism has been a popular pastime since the term was coined. The reason why this particular parlor game is so fruitless is that …
If we understand risk cannot be eliminated, it can only be transferred, then we will understand why the current financial trickery in Europe and elsewhere is doomed to fail.
The entire global economy’s fundamental financial instability can be trace…
As the U.S. dollar strengthens against other currencies, the phantom corporate profits generated by a devaluing dollar will vanish.
One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it ar…
