Durable Goods Data Becoming “Less Good”
By Steven Hansen According to the US Census, the advanced data released for durable goods shows new orders for durable good declined in October 2010. The headline: New Orders New orders for...
View ArticleManufacturing Industy Flat in November 2010
By Steven Hansen In October 2010, US Census reported manufacturing new orders down – and Econintersect’s analysis (click here) reported sales flat. This month (November 2010), US Census reported...
View ArticleTrailer Bridge Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBR): Shipping Without the Pirates
By Jim Van Meerten This afternoon I added Trailer Bridge Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBR) to the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative portfolio. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, they are an integrated trucking...
View ArticleDurable Good Data Points to Flat Economy
By Steven Hansen It should come as little surprise that durable goods data is inconsistent with economic expansion. Econintersect further disagrees with the US Census Bureau whose analysis concludes...
View ArticleTaxes and Inflation Are Draining Us
By Jeff Pierce The entire time I’ve been in Canada the price of gas has baffled me. I’ve been so used to measuring my tanks of gas by the gallon that when I got here and tried to think in terms of...
View ArticleBLS Employment Data Is Too Bad to Be True
By Steven Hansen As a devout skeptic of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) methodology, the January 2011 jobs report filled my wildest expectations for nonsense. In a series of moves over the last two...
View ArticleRobert Reich: The Republican’s Social-Darwinist Budget Plan
By Robert Reich In announcing the Republicans’ new budget and tax plan Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said “We are sharpening the contrast between the path that we’re proposing and...
View ArticleThe Choice in 2012: Social Darwinism or a Decent Society
By Robert Reich The returns aren’t all in yet on today’s Republican primaries but President Obama didn’t wait. He kicked off his 2012 campaign against Mitt Romney with a hard-hitting speech centered on...
View ArticleUnited Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS) Report Fans More Economic Worries
By Michael Tarsala The number of packages shipped help give us insight into the economy’s strength. From that perspective, second-quarter earnings from United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS) present...
View ArticleThe Best Market News All Week Was The Event That Didn’t Happen
By Michael Tarsala This week’s stock buying binge that sent the S&P 500 to multi-year highs also kept the transportation index from reaching new multi-year lows. That’s huge news! For now, it helps...
View ArticleRobert Reich: The Non Zero-Sum Society
By Robert Reich As President Obama said in his inaugural address last week, America “cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.” Yet that continues to be the...
View ArticleNew Age Diversification with the $50,000 Portfolio (CVX, VZ, LO, BBT, F,...
By Brian Nichols The primary goal of diversification has always been quite clear: It is to invest in a number of sectors, markets, and types of investments to be better protected from volatility and to...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Why Politicians Are Sensitive to Public Opinion on Same-Sex...
By Robert Reich Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support...
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