The S&P 500 Goes Sideways in Week 4 of April 2018

The S&P 500 closed the third week of April 2018 at 2,670.14. If you closed your eyes at that time, and didn't open them again until...

Inventions in Everything: Makeup Applicator for Cat Eyes

Sometimes, we here at the Inventions in Everything team are surprised by what's lurking behind the title of a patent. Usually, the titl...

The Convergence and New Divergence of GE and the S&P 500

Two months ago, we compared the trajectories of the S&P 500 (Index: INX ) and General Electric (NYSE: GE ) to the flight paths of starl...

Home Unaffordability in U.S. Hits New High

The trailing twelve month average of median new home sale prices in the United States reached a new high in March 2018, where preliminary da...

Sixty Years of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Measurements

The Mauna Loa Observatory has been collecting atmospheric carbon dioxide data for sixty years. Located in Hawaii, the observatory's rem...

Investor Focus Shifts Toward 2018-Q2 Earnings Season for S&P 500

Earnings reporting season for 2018-Q2 is now underway in the U.S. stock market. And where the S&P 500 is concerned, the arrival of earn...

Inventions in Everything: Optical Illusions to Enhance Safety

How can you get cars to slow down in areas where there can be a lot of pedestrian traffic? A depressingly common solution to that problem in...

To Whom Does the U.S. Government Owe Money?

The U.S. government's 2017 fiscal year officially ended on 30 September 2017. At that time, we knew that the total public debt outstand...

U.S. Recession Odds Tick Slightly Upward, Remain Very Low

The risk of a national recession beginning in the United States anytime in the next twelve months, or specifically between 13 April 2018 and...

Tax Day 2018: The Original IRS Form 1040

April 17th is U.S. Income Tax Day in 2018 and what better way could there be to mark the occasion that all Americans dread almost more tha...

Another Noise-Filled Week for the S&P 500 in April 2018

The second week of April 2018 proved to be just another in a series of noisy weeks in 2018 for the U.S. stock market. Geopolitics, trade and...