Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

The present contains all possible futures. But not all futures are good ones. Some can be quite cruel. The one we actually get is dictated by the choices we make. For the last few months I’ve b

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Old school Minyans might recognize the title of this column. It was used in January 2005 after a spiritual awakening in Arizona. When I walked into the desert that day, I operated from a place of fin

Rents Falling Everywhere Given that the official measure of Consumer Price Index (CPI) is based on rents not housing prices, consider the following links courtesy of Lanser on Real Estate: Really? Re

Once again, today's job numbers show Collectively, Economists Are a Perpetually Optimistic Lot. Payrolls were expected to drop 175,000, the median of 84 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of econom

Sorry folks, I was one month early. In January I forecast the unemployment rate would hit 9.8% by August. Meanwhile, even though it was clear the Fed was wildly off base in its adverse scenario, the

Unemployment is high and rising. But if the recession is over, won’t employment start to rise? The quick answer is no. Today we’ll look deeper into the Statistical Recovery and find yet m

"Gerber baby" is synonymous with “cute, all-American child.” Just one thing: Gerber is part of Nestle (NSRGY), the Swiss conglomerate best known for chocolate. Few shoppers j

Have you got $221,190 tucked away? The US Department of Agriculture says that’s the cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 -- and that doesn’t include childbearing expenses or