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.
Quote For The Week
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What I found ironic about this, tragically ironic, is that teddy bears face
more stringent regulations than guns do in our country. Teddy bears are
tested ...
DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven decreased 1.5% in March
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) reported:
Travel on all roads and streets changed by -1.5% (-3.7 billion vehicle
miles) for March 2013 as compared w...
Chinese Stimulus
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Or not. From Reuters (via Yahoo!):
*"If there in an over-reliance on government-led and policy driven measures
to stimulate growth, not only is this unsus...
"A random tour through some scaling laws"
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*"This, of course, is where the mystery of the game of dimensional analysis
*[pdf]* lies: which variables should be invited to the party?" *
One of the ref...
Traders - Episode 1x03 - Bad Is Good
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Traders is a Canadian television drama series shot and aired in the late
1990s. It is an interesting and entertaining TV series based on a fictional
invest...
About The IRS Bit
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Here is the IRS internal report on the matter, which clearly establishes
that illegal criteria were used to select cases for processing and that the
additi...
Private Colleges Propogate Wealth Gap
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A recently released report found that private colleges are keeping the poor
in debt while giving wealthier students a leg… Continue Reading
The post Priv...
Today’s Payrolls Data Worse Than Spinmeisters Say
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The Monthly payrolls data from the BLS shows, over the past year: * About
1.9 million more jobs, but only a 1.3% increase in jobs * Job growth is
about the...
Big Illegal Alien Tax Derp
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A friend sent me the link to this vid. It's so full of po' white angst and
big scary numbers.
My comment:
Without condoning any kind of tax fraud or o...
Gold reversion time
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With the incredible one day 5.68% drop in the gold price today, the
correlation that has existed since 2001 with the growth of US debt came to
an abrupt en...
You are what you Eat
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Throughout Human history starvation was always a constant threat. Now a new
threat looms, the threat of obesity. People are getting fatter. Starting in
the...
Making Billions From Female Millennials
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*Fashion companies have routed the S&P 500 during the time period of 2009
to 2013; during this period, one company experienced over 2400% growth
(blue li...
Retail Gasoline Prices Revisited
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Been awhile, but here is an update of the all in average retail price per
gallon of gasoline in the USA. I like to look at the 52 week MA as a proxy
for ...
Fed failed to predict 2008 recession
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Fed Admitted Ignorance, Underplayed Severity Of Situation Just Ahead Of
Massive Crisis, New Docs Reveal
01/18/2013
"If you want to feel confident that the ...
Final Curtain
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*European finance officials have discussed limiting the size of withdrawals
from ATM machines, imposing border checks and introducing euro zone capital
con...
credit rating opinions?
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With credit ratings agencies essentially poised to reject refinancing plans
for Portugal and Greece it may be well to remember who pays the agencies’
bills...
Playing with this graph a little bit I notice that 1) not multiplying by 231.4o7 changes the numbers on the vertical scale but does nothing to the shape of the curve, and 2) Putting it on a log scale makes it look as if a linear trend channel will contain the data. (Not too surprising, if you think about it.)
I'll have to download the data and dig in a bit more.
I just thought I'd mix it up a bit this time. It is unclear what the true upper end of the channel should be. In other words, how bubbly were the bubbles?
As a long-term permabear who thinks our economy cannot possibly grow like it once did (for a variety of reasons, among them the fact that women can no longer enter the workforce like they once did and the fact that we cannot endlessly take on exponentially increasing inflation adjusted debt), I'm also extremely skeptical that we can stay in the upper half of the long-term channel.
3 comments:
Just to be clear...
1. I'm adjusting the index for inflation.
2. The chart does not include dividends.
3. The 4 red diamonds on the chart define the exponential trend channel.
Playing with this graph a little bit I notice that
1) not multiplying by 231.4o7 changes the numbers on the vertical scale but does nothing to the shape of the curve, and
2) Putting it on a log scale makes it look as if a linear trend channel will contain the data. (Not too surprising, if you think about it.)
I'll have to download the data and dig in a bit more.
Cheers!
JzB
Jazzbumpa,
Putting it on a log scale makes it look as if a linear trend channel will contain the data. (Not too surprising, if you think about it.)
It does. In fact, that's how I have charted it in the past.
August 8, 2011
Stock Market Risk Analysis v.2
I just thought I'd mix it up a bit this time. It is unclear what the true upper end of the channel should be. In other words, how bubbly were the bubbles?
As a long-term permabear who thinks our economy cannot possibly grow like it once did (for a variety of reasons, among them the fact that women can no longer enter the workforce like they once did and the fact that we cannot endlessly take on exponentially increasing inflation adjusted debt), I'm also extremely skeptical that we can stay in the upper half of the long-term channel.
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