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Animated Unemployment
Taking a Closer Look at Unemployment
Employment as measured by the “establishment survey,” was down by 190,000; and Many feel it is an improvement that we are not falling as fast. Well, let us take a moment to look under the hood of these numbers. First, while the establishment survey was down 190k, the number of unemployed soared by 558,000,...
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Fat Pitches and the Carry Trade
At the end of last year, my opinion was the fattest pitch in investing over the near term was convertible arbitrage. The downside seemed very limited, the upside large and unlikely to correlate with the market. Well, it did correlate with the market, at least once the market turned. In essence everything did. Before...
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Economists Monkeying Around
What can we learn from monkeys about economics? It seems monkeys value skills, at least those in scarce supply. Download article as PDF
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Testing on the Great Economists
A little fun. Robert Whaples, an economics professor, has posted a short timed quiz on the contributions of great economists. Okay, maybe only fun for geeks such as myself. I missed the last question, and frankly don’t know a lot about that economists actual work, though I am familiar with his overall view of...
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A Roll of the Dice
via businessreport.com Emma James of the Baton Rouge Business Report interviews myself, Mike Patton of Integrity Wealth Management (a pretty good egg from what I know of him) and Professor Kelley Pace of LSU on the subject of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT’s.) I think she does a pretty good job on what is...
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