by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 08 2011 | Blog
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...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 08 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Earlier this week in my post entitled, “Adjusting the Scale of the Selloff to Demonstrate Its Absurdity,” I spent quite a lot of time talking about this thing called the “equity risk premium” and some of the interesting data I had...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 10 08 2011 | Blog
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...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 08 2011 | Blog
Today saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average close up 429.92 points, or up 3.98%. Meanwhile the broader stock index, the S&P 500, closed up 53.07 points, or 4.74%. Given this surge, let me provide a brief update about the “mood of the market.”...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 08 2011 | Blog
Yesterday I discussed the absurdity of the stock market sell off in response to the credit downgrade of the United States by Standard & Poor’s. This prompted an interesting comment from the What My Intuition Tells Me Now blog’s most loyal...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 08 2011 | Blog
By now you have heard that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit rating of the United States to AA+ from its vaunted AAA. Investors around the world seemed to take this opportunity and this moment to sell, sell, sell their equities. ...
