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So the December 09 unemployment rate held steady at 10% … yeah right. This goes to the issue of how to read and use economic indicators. The rate stayed were it was because a million people were dropped from the count of unemployed due to going passed the magic 27 week number. It’s [...] Gross is one of the top money managers in the world and his views are always worth reading but his latest investment outlook is extremely important and timely. Do yourself a favor and read the January 2010 Investment Outlook . Added Another one of my favorite older books to the free books page Bagehot’s Lombard Street. Banking panics and credit crises are nothing new and there is much value in comparing the older to the new. As long as banks and credit have existed so to has the credit crisis.
There are two items I always ensure are in my briefcase before I go out the door. My much abused and scarred HP-12C and a Knoppix DVD. Klaus has now released version 6.2 of the best live CD around. Some notable changes and upgrades include: LXDE desktop for those low resource situations that still [...] This is a follow up to previous post This should be interesting … where I stated the intention of getting WordPress up and running in my SourceForge user web space . Depending on where you are reading this you can see that it worked out pretty nice. I’ll go over what steps were needed. [...] It’s not exactly a secret that I think Gentoo is the perfect balance of customization and still being able to use good package management tools. Gentoo turned 10 this October and I’d just like to wish the team many more to come. [...] A new page Free Books has been added to the site. It’s accessible through the menu at the top. It is simply a collection of short descriptions of books I think are worth reading and links to obtain the text free from various sites. The first two items added are: Carl Menger was the [...] This entry is part of a series, Conference Board Indicators» This is part 2 of a series. The lead post is at Conference Board Economic Indicators Part One . As we saw in part one there are 10 leading indicators included in the Conference Board’s indexes. In this post I want to examine each [...] This entry is part of a series, Conference Board Indicators» Economic indicators such as the unemployment rate comprise a large part of the business news. Understanding the main indicators and their relationship to the overall economy will aid in understanding both the current economic condition and the most likely future developments. It’s well worth [...] Update: 2 July 2010, Don Boudreaux has an excellent letter to the editor that deals with the same topic and updated data. See Cafe Hayek At last week’s get together I reluctantly agreed to attempt explanation of the real values concerning the decline of manufacturing in the US. The difficulty in explaining [...] |
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