The Philadelphia Soda Tax and Tax Avoidance

To what extent have Philadelphia's residents been able to avoid that city's controversial soda tax? Until recently, that was an op...

Stock Prices in Third Lévy Flight Event of 2018

As agelong example observers of support prices, we don't commence exploit wild about any safety day occurrence in their place unless th...

U.S. Crude Oil Exports to China Zero Out

It wasn't just U.S. soybean exports that encountered some serious shenanigans in August 2018 as part of China's trade war strategy ...

Serious Shenanigans for U.S. Soybeans

Ken Roberts analyzes import-export data over at Forbes , and when the U.S. trade data for August 2018 came out, he quickly found that there...

S&P 500 Investors Focus on 2019-Q1 in Week 1 of 2018-Q4

In the first week of October 2018, S&P 500 (Index: SPX) continued to firmly fix their forward-looking focus on 2019-Q1 in setting stock...

U.S. Exports to China Collapse in August 2018

According to international trade data published by the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. exports to China collapsed in August 2018. The following c...

How Do American Adults Measure Up?

From the time a baby is born in the U.S. to the time they die, Americans are measured in a variety of different ways. Two of those ways invo...

Median New Home Sale Prices Edge Toward Greater Affordability

August 2018 saw the continuation of a relatively new trend for the relative affordability of new homes in the United States, where the media...

Dividends by the Numbers for September 2018 and 2018-Q3

September is typically the worst month of the year for tracking positive changes for dividends in the U.S. stock market. While the month of...

August 2018 Median Household Income

According to Sentier Research, median household income in the United States rose to $62,685 in August 2018, a 0.4% increase over its July 2...

The S&P 500 in the Week When the Fed Ended Its Forward Guidance

On Wednesday, 26 September 2018, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that it would no longer signal its intentions for monetary policy. Fede...