If Information Is Power, What Is Lack Of Information?
I’m going to take the charitable (though probably mistaken) view and say that Representative Daniel Webster was not deliberately trying to turn out the lights on Americans’ access to critical data when he proposed an amendment to defund the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). I tried (unsuccessfully) last year (here, here) to salvage the...
How Do I Share My Charts with Others via Facebook or Twitter?
Posting charts to a social network site is a great way to show others what you have created and a way to show others what you see happening in the market. Below are the steps to help you post charts to Facebook or Twitter. Access The Share Window To get started posting a chart to...
How Do I Email a SharpChart to Someone
Have you ever wanted to send your chart to someone else? The ability to quickly email a chart to another person is very beneficial. Below you will find the steps on how to email a SharpChart to another person. **Please make sure to follow the correct set of instructions. The steps are slightly different depending...
Hey, Big Spender
I’ve written about this before, but since Paul Krugman just posted about it, perhaps it’s time to revisit the issue. Professor Krugman’s chart, in my opinion, doesn’t go far enough in that it does not provide sufficient context. While the chart does show the YoY percent decline in Real Government Expenditures & Investment, it does...
How Do I Create a Scan That Only Looks at Stocks in my ChartList?
As an Extra subscriber we offer the ability for you to scan the stocks listed in your ChartLists. Please follow these steps depending on what scan interface you use to learn how to select your "ChartLists" for your scan. Standard Scan Interface To select your "ChartList" list go to the "Global Filters" section (#1) and...
Merrill’s Heroes
Invictus here. BR’s comments yesterday, plus some unfortunate softball media coverage, led me to today’s rant. There are few things in the world that annoy me more than revisionist history, especially when it’s done to burnish one’s own damaged legacy. To make a George Bush/Osama bin Laden analogy, I don’t think that much about Merrill...
A Quick (and Belated) Look at Flow of Funds
Though the data are always a bit dated, the Fed’s Flow of Funds report is always of interest to me, as it paints fairly comprehensive pictures. My favorite part of the release is Table B.100: Balance Sheet of Households and Nonprofit Organizations, in which much can be gleaned about the health of households in the...
Commodities – The Big Picture- Canada, Copper, Gold, Australia,
I got a comment back on the Long Term $TSX chart from earlier in the week. One of our fellow CSTA members from Ontario, Bob Hunziker, sent in this great chart. Why is it great? When we spend too much time on short term charts we fail to see the big picture. Stepping back can...
How do I Find and Use my Long-Term Loyalty Discount Code?
Long-term members are granted access to a loyalty discount coupon one year after their membership begins. Members can use that coupon to receive a discount on future upgrade or renewal orders for any of our subscription services. A new loyalty discount coupon code is offered each year that a you remain a subscriber. This tutorial...
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool…
…than to open it and remove all doubt. Invictus here. I usually know exactly where I’m going when I sit down to write a post — some numbers tell me a story that I think would be interesting to be share. Not so this time. I’ve wondered often and aloud what it takes these days...
Do We Face “A Japan-style Era of High Unemployment and Slow Growth”?
Invictus here. Interested parties were treated to a fascinating debate on the evening of November 14, as the Munk Debates assembled four estimable economic minds to debate the following resolution: Be it resolved North America faces a Japan-style era of high unemployment and slow growth Arguing the pro side of the resolution were David Rosenberg...
Splendid isolation ?
“Clearly, Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.” - Captain Blackadder [Rowan Atkinson], from ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. By some...
