I live in the USA and I am concerned about the future. I created this blog to share my thoughts on the economy and anything else that might catch my attention.
Schedule for Week of February 23, 2025
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The key reports this week are January New Home sales, the second estimate
of Q4 GDP, Personal Income and Outlays for January, and Case-Shiller house
prices...
Predicting Gold Prices with SARIMAX
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*Not investment advice.*
I collected 54 years of gold price data from the St. Louis Fed starting
9/30/71 (end of the US federal government fiscal year afte...
NVIDIA Revisited
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On August 26, 2023, 5 days before it a new closing hi at 493.55, I wrote a
critical post about NVDA - the stock, not the company. After that, the
stoc...
Stay away from popular tech stocks, part II
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Last August, I wrote a blog post arguing that largest technology and
internet companies -- Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- would
never grow i...
So, Where Have I Been?
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Well, of course, I have been where I am!
It's been a good few years away from this blog. I do miss some folks
terrible, and I sort of miss things financial...
Those Whom The Gods Wish To Destroy ...
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they first make mad. Still true!!!
*(Note: this post, and probably several others to follow, are actually
about the US dollar and relative currency trends....
11 comments:
It's... it's almost as if there's two economies. One where all the wealth accumulates and one where all the work is done.
Rob Dawg,
As a gamer, I tend to see it as an arcade video game.
Once a player reaches a billion dollars all they are trying to do is get the top score.
It's really hard for me to imagine that there would be another reason.
Put another way, is a two-billionaire really twice as well off as a one-billionaire, if not for the bragging rights?
Sigh.
I would cost me at least $98.1b to construct a space elevator.
When the book Jurassic Park came out, I was thinking "Damn, if I had billions of dollars I could create dinosaurs!".
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=cXU
is my favorite FRED graph (non-financial debt / GDP)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=cYx (corporate profits) explode coming out of the dotcom recession.
globalization, a yielding Fed, and the tax cuts were a helluva drug I guess.
M2 isn't necessarily the Fed printing, it's also how many times a dollar has been "saved" & lent out again.
Rob Dawg,
Let's get that price down. Pay lobbyists a few hundred million to get your space elevator subsidized?
TJandTheBear,
I've heard some suggest that hurricanes help the economy (rebuilding puts people back to work).
Just think what dinosaurs could do!
Troy,
The more we spend the more we save!
The more we lend the more we save!
The more we pretend the more we save!
There seems to be an ominous "end" pattern here.
"It's The End of The World As We Know It..."
nanute,
It's a mad world.
I find it kind of funny.
I find it kind of sad.
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