We're completing the picture that our real-time sampling of dividend cuts during the second quarter of 2018 has been painting. Through ...
U.S. Housing Unaffordability Remains Near All-Time Peak
In February 2018, the ratio of the trailing twelve month averages of median new home sale prices in the United States to median household in...
Firearms, Homicides and Suicides in America
According to the Small Arms Survey, Americans own 46% of all the firearms that are in civilian hands in the world today. The Small Arms Sur...
Decelerating Growth Trend for Median New Home Sale Prices
The growth of median new home sale prices in the United States has decelerated somewhat in the first months of 2018, repeating a pattern tha...
The S&P 500 and the Tariff Dog That Didn't Bark
For all the news headlines about trade wars and tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs, none of that trade-related news seems to be doing much to m...
Death in Ice Valley
When we're not solving economic or finance puzzles, we often turn our attention toward fighting crime. Recently, we have been following...
Tomato Soup, Oil and Inflation
One of the neater things that comes from researching the historic prices of everyday goods is the insights that you can extract from the dat...
Retailers Target Food Stamp Users in Advertising
The recent news that a study found that retailers are timing the advertising of number of products, such as soda pop, that are popular wi...
Ten Million Inventions in Everything!
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued its 10,000,000th utility patent! To mark the occasion, the USPTO also introduced a new pat...
"Meh": The Market's Response to the "Most Important Week of 2018"
Last week, we listed three possible outcomes for how the trajectory of the S&P 500 would evolve after we reached the effective end of 2...
Inventions in Everything: Shoes for Defying the Laws of Physics
Michael Jackson was many things. One of the most popular entertainers of all time, with a career that spanned over four decades until his ...
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