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May 16, 2012, 12:43 PM

JCP – J.C. Penney Co., Inc. – The department store operator’s shares had their worst percentage drop in more than two decades on Wednesday after the Company... Read »

Shall We Target Inflation with Fiscal Policy?

May 16, 2012, 11:18 AM

Most Keynesians seem to think that fiscal policy influences AD and inflation, even when rates aren’t stuck at the zero bound.  This recent article from The Economist... Read »

Industrial Production Rebounds Sharply In April

May 16, 2012, 10:22 AM

If you’re looking for evidence that recession risk is rising, you won’t find it in today’s update on industrial production, which surged 1.1% in April—the... Read »

The Impossible Hope of an End to Austerity

May 16, 2012, 8:50 AM

With French and Greek voters rejecting austerity, politicians are once again taking the government spending debate seriously. This column argues that the voters... Read »

Uncertainty Abounds – Markets Have Taken Note

May 16, 2012, 8:40 AM

Last summer the big question in the markets was whether or not the European Central Bank (ECB) would print large quantities of money in an effort to cap rising bond... Read »

Market Tries to Find a Bottom

May 16, 2012, 8:25 AM

Overseas Headlines continue to control this market as seems the foot that keeps kicking this can down the road is getting a bit fractured. Whereas before Europe... Read »

China’s Oil Thirst Drives Everything

May 16, 2012, 7:26 AM

The China growth story is still sputtering, but some pillars take longer to collapse then others.  PetroChina has just surpassed Exxon in oil production.  The... Read »

Trade Ideas: AAPL, FORM, TQNT, ZNGA

May 16, 2012, 5:45 AM

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) – The technical chart shows that the bears are fighting back. The stock managed to climb up above the 20-day SMA late in April after... Read »

Greece is Running Out of Time

May 16, 2012, 4:53 AM

I have repeatedly described myself as a Euroskeptic.  The current combination of politics and economics looks likely to at worst doom the Euro to failure, at best... Read »

Dropbox, Google Drive, and the Consumer Price Index

May 16, 2012, 4:32 AM

I was looking at the April CPI this morning, and I got to thinking about Dropbox. I use Dropbox literally 25-50 times a day.  I’m working on a file on my Apple... Read »

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