Monthly Archives: April 2018

The Money Behind The Masters

The Masters’ tagline has been “a tradition unlike any other” for years. The validity of this claim aside, the first major championship of the year at Augusta National Golf Club is unique to the rest of major sports and golf as a whole for the simple fact that it does not pursue the most money…

“All Your Data Are Belong To Us”

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been all over the news this week. Mr. Cook has admonished Mr. Zuckerberg for Facebook’s current predicament and has been exceptionally self-serving proclaiming Apple’s data privacy policies as moral high ground. Before your eyes glaze over and you decide you are already a world-class expert…

RecessionAlert Weekly Leading Index Update – April 6

The latest index reading came in at 21.4, up from 20.8 the previous week. RecessionAlert launched an alternative to ECRI’s Weekly Leading Index Growth indicator (WLIg). The Weekly Leading Economic Index (WLEI) uses fifty different time series from these categories: Corporate Bond Composite, Treasury Bond Composite, Stock Market Composite, Labor Market Composite, Credit Market Composite. RecessionAlert emphasizes that…

Plotting The Bitcoin Trend

  Bitcoin chart followers note a dismal-looking trendline. A clear pattern has emerged in the bitcoin chart, and it’s not pretty. Bitcoin Futures Does anyone remember the hype regarding the launch of bitcoin futures? The true believers thought that bitcoin futures would let the big boy in and that would take Bitcoin to the moon….

US Trade Deficit Grows – 06 April 2018

According to figures released by the US Department of Commerce, the US trade deficit with the rest of the world opened up to $57.6 billion in February, the largest monthly deficit seen since 2008. The deficit was wider than predicted and partly due to an increase in foreign services purchased by the USA such as…