Economy

Credit Suisse recently released the 2014 version of its Global Wealth Report, the bank's annual report on global household wealth.  In this posting, I will ……Read More

We all know that there is a close relationship between personal consumption and GDP growth as shown on this graph from FRED:     As ……Read More

Slumping oil prices are putting pressure on U.S. drillers. The number of active rigs drilling for oil and gas fell by their most in two ……Read More

FRED, that wonderful source of all things economic, has a lot of interesting data that is there for the taking.  As you'll see in this ……Read More

Given the current high level of volatility in the stock market, I wanted to revisit a metric that reveals a great deal about investor sentiment, ……Read More

Next time you get into your car and drive to the supermarket, think about how much energy you consume on an annual basis. It is ……Read More