Thursday, November 03, 2016

Time For Value?

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The bottom 20% of the S&P500 ranked by P/E ratio is selling at 10.2 times earnings versus 52.2 times earnings for the top quintile. Is ...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Share the 2016 Nobel Price in Economics

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The Nobel committee announced today that for their work in contract theory Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström won the 2016 Sveriges Riksbank Pr...
Monday, October 03, 2016

For the Record: Harris Commented on the Auto Bailout.

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Alex Johnson,  "For Dealers, Auto bailout Can't Come Too Soon." NBC News 12/4/2008, quoted Malcolm Harris, an economics profe...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Wells Fargo to Pay $185 Million Fine Over Illegal Account Openings

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Even Homer Nods Wells Fargo is generally considered one of the best run banks. It has a strong commercial banking franchise and its risk m...
Friday, April 01, 2016

The Jobs Report: Solid Growth, But Does Little to Solve Our Economic Malaise

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Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the March jobs report.  It shows continued solid growth:  An increase of 215,000 new jobs.  The ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Why is Trump Triumphing In His Demographics Sweet Spot? Look at the Data

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Two Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economists, Michael McCracken and Joseph McGillicuddy, provide this graph.  It shows the change in emp...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Marvin Ellison CEO of JCPenny

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How JCPenney CEO Ellison Plans to Turn Company Around March 15 -- JCPenney CEO Marvin Ellison discusses the company's turnaround plans...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

This Morning's Employment Report

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that unemployment fell to 4.9 percent and wages rose. " In January, average hourly earn...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

The Making of the Big Short (the Movie That Is.)

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Michael Lewis' book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is one of the best on the financial crisis.  No one writes about finan...