In Today's Wall Street Journal
L: Every month Jim fills out economic forecast forms for Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. There are also less-regular forecasting...
Satellites and Economic Data
L: Did you know there is a China Satellite Manufacturing Index (SMI) produced by a company named SpaceKnow that has been live on...
US Manufacturing On Fire
J: The economic data flow for July started off with a bang—appropriate for today as we celebrate Brexit 1776—thanks to the good people...
The "Debt Ceiling" Is Ridiculous Nonsense
J: Few exercises in politics are more futile and pointless (L: and time-consuming and distracting) than the regular jousting in Congress...
Woohoo! We Are Really Rich!
J: For over seventy years now the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“the Board”) has been providing us with quarterly...
Don't Worry about the Trade Deficit
J: President Trump and some of his key advisers, most notably Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Director of the White House National...