Have the Financial Markets Turned Up?

  A brief post.  Last week financial markets saw wild, wild swings, triggering widespread panic and a lot of traffic to the What My Intuition Tells Me Now Blog.  In the midst of all of the noise I posted a, “Brief Update About Mood of the Financial...

Reports of Large Corporate Share Repurchases

  London’s Financial Times is reporting this morning that a number of U.S. corporations have engaged in large share repurchases this week.  Frankly, this soothes the soul as I have been complaining since late 2010 that businesses ought to be deploying their...

Jobless Claims Improve Again

  Amidst the filth and the fury of stock market rises and falls this week economic data have kept chugging away.  Yesterday the Department of Labor reported that initial jobless claims data have improved again, falling by 7,000 this week to a level of 395,000...

A New Measure of Real Economic Growth

  I have spent some time with historical economic data over the last several days to try and establish a new measure of real economic growth.  The work, which I will be sharing below, is something that, philosophically, I have been working on for many years. Back...