Tag Archives: consumer price index

Set the Children Free

There are things that are so obvious they shouldn’t warrant discussion…but they do.  For there are blockheads out there whose brains are so soft they don’t know obvious from Adam’s off ox.  Experience tells us that common sense is remarkably … Continue reading

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In Graphs We Trust

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke can’t seem to catch a break.  Wherever he turns someone is there to knock his job performance.  Senators, Presidential candidates, lowly editorial writers…they’ve all lined up and cast their stones. But why?  Hasn’t Bernanke done … Continue reading

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Congressional Super Committee Farce

Shortly after the opening bell on Wednesday, the price of oil topped $100 per barrel…a 26 percent increase in less than two months.  What gives? The Associated Press tells us it was the Labor Department’s Wednesday report, that consumer prices … Continue reading

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Making the Impossible Possible

This week brought new evidence, not necessarily that the stock market efficiently allocates capital to its most productive use, but that it effectively separates fools from their money.  The fool gives…Wall Street takes away.  In other words, the house always … Continue reading

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