Economy

While certain aspects of the economy appear to be "normal", some are clearly lagging the pack. In one case, the long-term sector growth has been ……Read More

While you have to swallow long-term projections with a few pounds of salt, an interesting study from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, better ……Read More

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