Economy

Let's open this posting with a graph showing the U.S. federal on-budget surpluses and deficits since 1915:   Here's a graph showing us the on-budget ……Read More

When the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) releases the minutes of its closed door meetings to the "sweaty masses", the world's investing community sits ……Read More

One of my main sources of data for my postings is the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis better known as FRED.  Using their data, ……Read More

Over the past five years since the Fed began its long-term experiment with near-zero interest rates in a desperate attempt to prod the economy back ……Read More

Many people, even fanatical advocates of solar power, are unaware quite how close we are to reaching a critical milestone in the industry. Within a ……Read More

Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old ……Read More