By Doug Short (Guest Post) The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q...
Read MoreBy EconMatters As the global economy is still reeling from the Great Recession, the unemployment statistics are getting staggering in the U.S. by either historical or normal standards. There are more than 2...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) In Washington, almost every report is late. The exception is Social Security. They have their numbers for September posted as of today. The folks in D.C. run their clocks on a fiscal year that...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) The federal government should get out of the business of picking technology and “green” winners. Government backing of alternate energy companies has...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) James Ross, the University Architect at UNC Wilmington and an avid student of the economy, called my attention to Martin Wolfe’s recent essay at the Financial...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Party heardy NYU economist Nouriel Roubini went on Bloomberg TV on Aug. 31 to give his latest prediction of the global economy: “We’ve reached a stall speed in the economy, not just in the...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) The world of counterfeiting here in China is definitely a distorted, bizarro environment that is influenced by industry trends, while at the same time pushing back and giving legitimate...
Read MoreBy Chris Kimble of Kimble Charting Solutions (via Doug Short) (Guest Post) We have attempted to keep professionals and investors aware of a key flag/pennant pattern in the Shanghai index for almost a year. The pattern was...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) Everyone was waiting with baited breath for the news about QE-3. But perhaps the number to watch was Q-3 nominal GDP, coming soon!! The important message Ben Bernanke had in Jackson Hole was...
Read MoreBy EconMatters With the Fed promising to keep rates low for an extended amount of time, at least for the next two years based upon their latest analysis of the economy, interest rates on CDs is a negative return when you factor...
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