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September 02, 2010

    
theoildrum


  German Military Study Warns of Potential Energy Crisis (This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is...)

    
theoildrum


  BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Preparing to Move - and Open Thread (The annotations to the ROV feeds from BP are becoming a little more descriptive, particularly with those related to the Q4000, which will...)

    
theoildrum


  Drumbeat: September 2, 2010 (John Michael Greer - Green Wizardry: A response to Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins is a smart guy, and even though he?s garbled a fair number of the details, his post raises useful...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  State Tax Revenues Slowly Rebound ... But (The Nelson Rockefeller Institute reports State Tax Revenues Are Slowly Rebounding. However, as always, the devil is in the details. Let's take a...)

    
taxfoundation


  How Much Do You Know About the Expiring Tax Cuts? Take this Short Quiz and Find Out (The Tax Foundation has put up a 10-question quiz for users to test their knowledge of the Bush tax cuts and what...)

    
taxprof


  Steve Johnson Posts Tax Articles on SSRN (Steve R. Johnson (UNLV) has posted a third tranche (Part 1, Part 2) of his tax papers on SSRN: When General Statutes and Specific Statutes Conflict, 57 Tax...)

    
taxprof


  Hatfield: Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, and the Ethics of Casual Conversation (Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) has posted Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, and the Ethics of Casual Conversation on SSRN. Here is...)

    
taxprof


  Higher Ed Bubble Dwarfs Housing Bubble (Mark J. Perry (University of Michigan-Flint, School of Management), The Higher Education Bubble Is About to Burst (CarpeDiem): Note that the housing bubble...)

    
taxprof


  SOI Releases Summer 2010 SOI Bulletin (The IRS's Statistics of Income Division yesterday released the Summer 2010 SOI Bulletin (Vol. 30, No. 1) with these four articles: Sole Proprietorship Returns,...)

    
taxprof


  Marty Ginsburg's Last Speech (Law Week Colorado, Justice Ginsburg Reads Late Husband?s Funny, Heart-Warming Speech: Martin Ginsburg?s speech recounted how an obscure 10th Circuit tax case, which the...)

    
taxprof


  Al Sharpton Channels Rod Blagojevich (Rod Blagojevich: President Obama's senate seat ?is a f?-ing valuable thing, you just don?t give it away for nothing,? Al Sharpton: On the anniversary of Martin...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Thursday links: secret sauces (Is the “cult of equity” dead and buried?  (FT Alphaville) A look at recent AAII sentiment numbers.  (Charts Gone Wild, Bespoke) What the MOVE index is...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Thursday screencast: manufacturing melt-up (Yesterday’s ISM Manufacturing data took many market participants by surprise.  In today’s screencast we note that maybe this should not have...)

    
capitalspectator


  JOBLESS CLAIMS DIP, BUT REAL PROGRESS IS STILL MIA (Jobless claims fell slightly last week, dropping by 6,000. That's good news. The trouble is that we're still at an elevated 472,000 on a seasonally...)

    
capitalspectator


  A BRIGHT LIGHT IN A DARK ROOM (Manufacturing activity turned up again last month, the Institute for Supply Management reported yesterday, offering the first statistical review of August's economic...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
seekingalpha


  Bloomberg Gold Survey: Take a Chance? (Gold in Mind submits: Tuesday, Bloomberg revealed the results of its gold price survey. Bloomberg surveyed 29 analysts about expected gold price highs in 2011....)

    
seekingalpha


  SLV Silver Holdings Nearing Record High (Tim Iacono submits: The holdings at the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV) have been climbing recently, some 129 tonnes of the metal added in just the last seven...)

    
seekingalpha


  Gold and Silver Market Suppression Failures Flash Buy Signal, Part 4 (Robert Kientz submits:This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on gold and silver price analysis. Please read Parts 1, 2, and 3 before...)

    
seekingalpha


  Commodities: Hoarding vs. Shorting (Jeff Nielson submits:Given the decades of rampant manipulation of the precious metals markets on the “short” side of trading, it is more than ironic that...)

    
seekingalpha


  The Yellow Metal to Own for the Next 10 Years (Kevin McElroy submits: Deutsche Bank analyst predicts $1,550 gold for 2011We're in the early stage of a huge uptrendMy strongest recommendation...)

    
seekingalpha


  Precious Metals Challenge Resistance Levels as Physical Market Remains Tight (Mark O'Byrne submits: Gold: Risk appetite increased yesterday as the first day of the new month saw equity buyers...)

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  "Free Markets Foster Competition" (That's a chapter title from Jonathan Franzen's new book Freedom. If you think you are going to like this book, you almost certainly will; it delivers on its...)

    
marginalrevolution


  The Small Schools Myth (Did Bill Gates waste a billion dollars because he failed to understand the formula for the standard deviation of the mean? Howard Wainer makes the case in the entertaining...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Why so much BS in the corporate world? (Chris, a loyal MR reader, asks: Why does the corporate world use language so inefficiently? Why turn a simple thing like "talking to a client about their...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Pending Home Sales increase in July

    
calculatedrisk


  Weekly initial unemployment claims decline slightly

    
bigpicture


  I Thought We Won (As we approach the 21st anniversary of the triumph of freedom and capitalism over oppression and central planning, I keep wondering if we squandered the victory. Political rhetoric...)

    
bigpicture


  Dick Fuld?s Fantastic Revisionism ! (?Lehman was forced into bankruptcy not because it neglected to act responsibly or seek solutions to the crisis, but because of a decision, based on flawed...)

    
bigpicture


  Re-risk ? prudently (Bull markets are born out of distress — witness March 2009. Bear Markets are born out of prosperity — witness 2008-early 2009. Liquidating/de-risking out of equities...)

    
bigpicture


  Retailers Need a Fresh Start (Retailers need a fresh start Andy Xie Caixin Online Aug. 30, 2010 > BEIJING: China’s gross domestic product surpassed Japan in the second quarter of 2010. The...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
econlog


  Lawrence Lindsey Vs. Christy Romer, by Arnold Kling (She says, by June, before the Recovery Act could have had much of an impact, it was 9½ percent. That is, our projection turned out to be wrong even...)

    
taxprof


  UNH Hosts Intellectual Property Tax Challenge (The University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center) is hosting its first Intellectual Property Tax Challenge: The tax...)

    
taxprof


  Kahng: Investment Income Withholding in the U.S. and Germany (Lily Kahng (Seattle) has published Investment Income Withholding in the United States and Germany, 10 Fla. Tax Rev. 315 (2010). Here is...)

    
babypipspiponomics


  NFP, How Do I Trade Thee? (Woohoo! The first Friday of the month is coming up and y'all know what that means: It's time for the NFP! Here's what I think the August report has in...)

    
economistsview


  A Dream House After All (Karl Case says the American dream is still alive: A Dream House After All, by Karl Case, Commentary, NY Times: If you read the coverage of the latest figures on the sales of...)

    
economistsview


  links for 2010-09-01 (What Kind of Model Is Brian Riedl Using? - Econbrowser Breaking down the ISM numbers - FT Alphaville Bond Market Instability in a Liquidity Trap - Andy Harless Why America Isn?t...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  Are cruise ships saving the theatre industry? (Cruise entertainment doesn't have the best of reputations, but I took my maiden voyage earlier this year and it was a real eye-opener. I was there to...)

    
econbrowser


  What Kind of Model Is Brian Riedl Using? (If one wants to be taken seriously in the world of policy analysis, one should at least use an internally consistent framework. This consideration, apparently,...)

    
bigpicture


  Freakonomics the Movie (Trailer) (FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the...)

    
bigpicture


  Fast Money: Will Obama Spoil the Party? (What President Obama should do next for the economy, with Barry Ritholtz, FusionIQ. Wed. Sept. 1 2010 | :42:0 10 ET I need a hair...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
worthwhile


  Gender equity and vertical equity (I'm spending today writing a review of Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia's new book Taxation and Gender Equity.The review is for the journal Feminist Economics, but...)

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
institutional-economics


  Fundamentals of Australian House Price Inflation

    
institutional-economics


  The Broken Windscreen Fallacy

    
econlog


  Oil Bubble Talk is Back, by Arnold Kling (CNBC quotes Peter Beutel, I honestly think that if there were no investors using oil as an asset that the price of oil right now would be $10 or $15 or $18,...)

    
econlog


  Thomas Sargent, Master Macroeconomist, by Arnold Kling (In an interview, he says, the more dynamic, uncertain and ambiguous is the economic environment that you seek to model, the more you are going...)

    
econlog


  David Friedman on Eggs and Quality, by David Henderson (I had missed David Friedman's post last week on eggs and quality. The whole thing is worth reading. He points out that even though the British...)

    
cafehayek


  Hoover vs. Roosevelt (Here is a five minute excerpt from my interview with David Kennedy. He compares Hoover and Roosevelt’s economic policies in response to the Great Depression. His answer...)

    
cafehayek


  Pollution Trends (Pollution trends – here and here.  (And I know that, for at least some pollutants, the trends were also downward – that is, good – prior to 1970.)  (HT Ross...)


September 01, 2010

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Gallup Poll Shows Consumer Spending Pullback, Consumer Confidence Levels Below Depressed 2009 Levels ; Back-to-School Sales Bust Says WSJ (Spending is up a tad from depressed 2009 levels but still way...)

    
taxfoundation


  Bloomberg Stands By "Cowboy" Remark in State Cigarette Tax Dispute with Seneca Tribe (New York's cigarette tax of $4.35 (raised this year from the already-high $2.75) is sufficiently high relative to...)

    
taxprof


  The Clean Slate (Newsweek: Clean Slate Time, by Keith Libbey (Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis) & Evan Thomas (Newsweek): How about this for a tax plan: cut most people?s taxes by half, eliminate the...)

    
babypipspippinainteasy


  Daily Chart Art - September 2, 2010 (What's up, my sexy, beautiful, chart-lovin' people? On the canvas today I've got the GBPUSD, NZDUSD, and EURCHF pairs. Check 'em...)

    
economistsview


  Christina Romer?s Farewell Address (Here's a summary of: Christina Romer?s Farewell Address I also explain one reason I'm so furstrated with fiscal...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  How much did interest rates matter for the housing boom? (Both theory and data suggest that lower real rates cannot account for more than one-fifth of the boom in house prices. That's from Edward...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Personal Bankruptcy Filings: Down from July, Up from August 2009

    
calculatedrisk


  U.S. Light Vehicle Sales 11.5 Million SAAR in August

    
bigpicture


  Media Appearance: CNBC?s Fast Money (9/01/10) (> Tonite I will be on Fast Money on CNBC at 5:30pm discussing the next NFP, Tax Cuts, and big Infrastructure Stimulus. Temp tax cuts, UE extensions,...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
worthwhile


  Arrow, Schelling, and the Fed (Does the Fed want to loosen monetary policy? If so, why doesn't it do it? There are two answers (or at least, two simple answers) to this question: 1. The Fed doesn't...)

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
divisionoflabour


  Adam Smith? Who's THAT? (My good friend Bruce Caldwell has some interesting comments on the place of "history of thought" in...)

    
divisionoflabour


  California Cities: D Is for Disincorporate (Story here. So how is the California Senate spending its time? Debating (and ultimately rejecting) a ban on plastic bags. Of course the CA Senate might be...)

    
divisionoflabour


  Obama & the Mendoza Line for Keeping Political Promises (Last night President Obama took to the tube to congratulate himself for keeping his campaign promise to end combat in Iraq (never mind that...)

    
cafehayek


  Some Links (Shikha Dalmia explains that the G.M.’s new I.P.O. is meant to Invigorate Political Opportunities for Democrats. Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby reports that “Cash for...)

    
cafehayek


  Whack-a-Mole (No modern myth dies harder than the familiar claim – today repeated in the Los Angeles Times by one Joan Mortenson – that “It was the massive spending of World War II...)

    
theoildrum


  Ethanol Blend E85 Case Study: Iowa (Iowa - The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol...)

    
theoildrum


  BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Continuing to Wait; Wave Glider - and Open Thread (Additional work near the Deepwater Horizon well site continues to be delayed by high waves. Once the current weather...)

    
theoildrum


  Drumbeat: September 1, 2010 (Oil Price Ignores Long-Term Supply Worries You could be excused for seeing a grim metaphor for the death of the oil age in the scenes of destruction visited on the U.S....)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Quick Hits: Walking Away from Boats; Philadelphia Demands $300 Blogger License Fee; Birth Rate Lowest in Century; Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders (I am traveling this morning will look at ISM and other...)

    
taxprof


  Rubin & Robertson: Bring Back the Estate Tax, Retroactive to Jan. 1 (Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bring Back the Estate Tax Now, by Robert Rubin (Co-chair, Council on Foreign Relations; former Treasury...)

    
taxprof


  Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give a Sh**? ((Warning: Foul language.) In The Know: Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A...)

    
taxprof


  Lines Blur in Tax Advice (Dow Jones, Lines Blur In Tax Advice, by Arden Dale: The line between smart and criminal can be a fine one when it comes to giving tax advice, and some advisers see it blurring...)

    
taxprof


  TIGTA: 10% Error Rate in Returns Claiming Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration today released Improvements Are Needed to Reduce Erroneous Foreign...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Noise, economic indicators and human action (Noise has always been a part of the financial markets. Fischer Black wrote a seminal paper on the topic of “Noise” in the Journal of Finance...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Wednesday links: September snap back (We are now back in the trading range.  (Big Picture) August asset class performance.  (Bespoke) Investors continue to shift from active to passive management. ...)

    
abnormalreturns


  Wednesday screencast: forex funds (It seems that for now retail forex is going to be the playground of leveraged traders.  The CFTC has proposed rules that continue to allow for retail traders to...)

    
capitalspectator


  A WARNING SIGN FROM "STICKY" INFLATION? (When we last checked in with the monthly consumer price index, headline inflation was running at an annualized 1.2% pace as of this past July, off sharply from...)

    
economistsview


  Thomas Sargent on Modern Macroeconomic Models (As a follow-up to the post below this one on the usefulness of modern macroeconomic modes, here's Tom Sargent. Given my remarks below, I was pleased to...)

    
economistsview


  The Great Depression in Economic Memory (Jean Pisani-Ferry argues that "In extraordinary times, history is, in fact, a better guide than models estimated with data from ordinary times": The Great...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
seekingalpha


  Gold and Silver Market Suppression Failures Flash Buy Signal, Part 3 (Robert Kientz submits:This is Part 3 of a 5-part series on gold and silver price suppression. Please read Parts 1 and 2 before...)

    
seekingalpha


  Gold Testing All-Time High, Again (Forexyard submits: Spot gold prices have surged and are closing in on their all-time high. Negative risk sentiment surrounding the recovery of the global economy and...)

    
seekingalpha


  Gold Rises in August to Record Monthly High (Mark O'Byrne submits: Gold: After yesterday's 1% rise, gold traded sideways in Asia but has risen again in early European trading as the dollar has...)

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
marginalrevolution


  Venezuelan markets in everything (A Venezuelan politician is offering breast implants as a prize in a raffle to raise funds for his parliamentary election campaign. "Some people raffle TVs and we...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Assorted links (1. In defense of factory employment. 2. Bill Dickens defends education against the signaling model. 3. In defense of...)

    
marginalrevolution


  What I've been reading (1. The Private Lives of Trees, by Alejandro Zambra. He has snuck up on us and suddenly he is one of Latin America's best writers. As an extra bonus, you can read this in a...)

    
marginalrevolution


  Is being interesting more important than being happy? (Vimspot asks: 2 things I'd love you to elaborate on (though perhaps you left them as cliff hangers for a reason): 1. You once said being...)

    
calculatedrisk


  Some comments on August ISM Manufacturing Index

    
calculatedrisk


  General Motors: Sales off sharply from August 2009

    
calculatedrisk


  Construction Spending declines in July

    
calculatedrisk


  ADP: Private Employment decreases 10,000 in August

    
calculatedrisk


  MBA: Purchase Application activity suggests low level of existing home sales in August and September

    
bigpicture


  Pop! Back Into the Trading Range (I have recently been complaining about the excessive bearish sentiment. Whether it was Tony Robbin’s economic warnings, the excessive bearishness of Wall Street...)

    
bigpicture


  The Joy of a Salesman (NSFW Being a salesman is the ultimate career. Especially when you get to deal with bosses like this one. (If you are in sales, or have ever been in sales, you will get this. If...)

    
bigpicture


  Attention RE Agents: NAR Spin is Counter-Productive ! (We have had a god-awful run of Housing data. New and Existing Home Sales, Defaults and Foreclosure data, even the Case Shiller report — all...)

    
bigpicture


  Bond bubble- a sterile debate on semantics (Much ink has been spilt over the question of whether government bonds are in a bubble or not. The bond bubble believers love to cite stats along the...)

    
bigpicture


  Futures Strong (Stocks snapped a two-day decline, U.S. index futures rose and copper rallied after China?s manufacturing and Australia?s economy grew faster than economists estimated. China?s...)

    
bigpicture


  What Makes America Great: Layoffs! (I am watching Squawk Box around 6:30am as I get dressed this morning. The conversation turns to various incentives in Germany, where firms are actually paid not to...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)

    
econlog


  Why I Still Think I'll Win My Unemployment Bet, by Bryan Caplan (I've grown slightly anxious about my bet with John Quiggin on European unemployment.  But Sumner's a great therapist:An optimist...)

    
divisionoflabour


  On Competition Between Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospitals (One of the many supposed evils of the health care marketplace is the ambulatory surgery center (ASC), a facility which supposedly drains...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  FDIC Quarterly Banking Report: "Reduced Loan-Loss Provisions Boost Earnings"; Commercial Banker Comments on Loan Loss Provisions (Inquiring minds are investigating the FDIC Second Quarter 2010...)

    
globaleconomicanalysis


  Oregon Tax Revenue from Measure 66 is 50% Short of Predictions; Oregon Grants Unions 4.75% Pay Hike (From the dysfunctional state of Oregon comes news that Measure 66 fell about 50% short of its...)

    
taxfoundation


  "Non-Combat" Troops Remaining in Iraq Will Still Receive "Combat Zone" Tax Treatment (In a televised address to the nation tonight, President Obama outlined his plans going foward concering U.S....)

    
taxprof


  Hellerstein & Duncan: VAT Exemptions: Principles and Practice (Walter Hellerstein (Georgia) & Harley Duncan (KPMG, Washington, D.C.)have published VAT Exemptions: Principles and Practice, 128 Tax...)

    
taxprof


  Subscribing to TaxProf Blog (We offer two ways for you to have TaxProf Blog content automatically delivered to your computer, cell phone, or mobile device, as explained in the left column of the blog...)

    
taxprof


  Mickey Mouse, the Estate Tax and Me (USA Today op-ed, Mickey Mouse, the Estate Tax and Me, by Abigail Disney: [T]he estate tax will automatically be reinstated after a year's hiatus ? in its 2001...)

    
taxprof


   Law School Deans' Summer of Love (Corporate Counsel, Law School Deans' Summer of Love: Are law school deans just more attractive than the rest of us? Probably not. But they sure seem to be hot...)

    
taxprof


  Chronicle: 30 Ways to Rate a College (Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 Ways to Rate a College, by Alex Richards & Ron Coddington: The lines below connect raters to each of the measures they take into...)

    
babypipspiponomics


  Got Nothing on Yen, Baby (For the past couple of weeks, USDJPY has been treading in territories untouched since 1995. The yen's appreciation has caused Japanese officials to become more and more...)

    
economistsview


  "Bring Back the Estate Tax Now" (Dear Deficit Hawks: Bring Back the Estate Tax Now, by Robert Rubin and Julian Robertson, Commentary, WSJ: ...Congress is finally turning its attention to the expiring...)

    
economistsview


  The Dynamic Properties of New Keynesian Models with Learning ([This one is, as they say, wonkisk.] As James Bullard noted in the previous post, we "have one of the world's experts on the question of...)

    
economistsview


  links for 2010-08-31 (Bickering at the FOMC? - FT Alphaville For Many, a New Job Means Lower Wages - NYTimes America?s Saving Surprise - Martin Feldstein Ambiguity is another reason to mitigate climate...)

    
lobg2


  Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.

    
lobg2


  When good (lefty) papers go bad.

    
seekingalpha


  Gold Will Shine No Matter What (Money Morning submits: More analysts and investors are increasing their bets on gold with some forecasters saying the rally in the yellow metal will continue no matter...)

    
seekingalpha


  Gold and Other Commodities Respond to Monetary Policy (Calafia Beach Pundit submits: This chart covers almost 30 years of gold and commodity prices, and I think it shows an impressive correlation...)

    
seekingalpha


  Junior Miners in the Sweet Spot (Marco G. submits:Even as the uncertainties in the stock markets are very worrying, there is a segment in which the prospects are looking quite bright. Gold and Silver...)

    
pippinainteasy


  Long Cable

    
pippinainteasy


  Close Cable trade

    
calculatedrisk


  Existing Home Inventory declines slightly in August

    
bigpicture


  CrowdQuery: Will Ratings Agencies Escape Justice? (The Bloomberg/BusinessWeek headline was enough to ruin your evening: SEC Declines to Sue Moody?s Over Inflated Ratings. The facts were even worse:...)

    
voxbaby


  Samwick Media Watch

    
econhopeful


  The UCLA Fly-Out

    
benmuse


  Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)

    
benmuse


  King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)