Friday, March 05, 2010

Jobs

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Monthly Employment Report for February. Reading the tea leaves, we find confirmation that the e...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Heineken Wants to Be At Least Number Two!

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Heineken's buys Femsa's beer unit. The dutch brewer may not be as big as AnheiserBush-InBev, but they know growth is to be found inf...

Confidence Down. Stocks Down. Asia Follows.

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News galore and look what happened: Consumer confidence was way down and retailers announced earnings. Not surprisingly, surprises mov...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Is Our National Defense As Sound as the Dollar?

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In the 1950s, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.  Britain and France invaded.  America opposed the invasion.  The Eisenhower administration ...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Greece and the Fed's Exit Strategy Move Bank Stocks

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U.S. banks have $176 million dollar exposure to the sovereign debt of the PIGSs (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain.) Michael Corkery in...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Ford is in the Black

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Matthew Dolan and Jeff Bennett reported on January 29th in the W all Street Journal " Ford Posts First Full-Year Profit Since 2005. ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Do You Care a Rap About the Business Cycle?

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John Maynard Keynes was perhaps the most imposing economist of the Twentieth Century.  He is the father of macroeconomics (John Hicks might ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Are the Dogs of the Dow Back?

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The Recovery: Write Less Off, Mail More Offers

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Good News For Banks; Good News For the Postal Service Credit card losses are down for major issuers. This bodes well for postal volumes a...