New Orders for Durable Goods Jump in June
New orders for manufactured durable goods in June increased $9.9 billion or 4.2 percent to $244.5 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The increase is the fourth in the last ...
Global Arms Markets as Seen Through the Syrian Lens
By Scott Stewart
The many and diverse efforts to arm the various actors in the Syrian civil war are really quite amazing to watch. These efforts are also quite hard to decipher — ...
U.S. Home Prices On a Tear, Climb 9.3%
The latest S&P/Case-Schiller housing report showed average home prices for 20 cities increasing by 9.3% for the year ending in February 2013. The index rose 0.3% between January ...
Up, Up and Up. The S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq Hit New Highs.
All major stock indices hit new highs today on good news on corporate earnings, the housing and employment fronts, and benign news from Europe.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) ...
Should You Buy a Notebook or a Tablet Computer?
In case you missed it, a seismic technological shift has taken place over the last few years. This shift has implications for the future of computing as well as your wallet.
The shift ...
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There’s a great new offer from Bank of America that gets you $100 cash back. It also gives you 1% cash back on purchases, 2% on ...
Is There a Crisis of Capitalism?
By now you probably have that nagging feeling that we appear to be lurching from one crisis to another in the world economy. One day it’s gold, another day its excessive debt ...
Should I Take My Social Security Benefits at 63?
Q. My husband has a long history of working. He is now 62 however, and planning on retiring at 63.Would it make any difference in the Social Security benefits he receives if he collects ...
The Rise and Fall of Gold
The last few weeks have seen sharp declines in the price of gold. Yes, you heard correctly. Gold, that supposed safe harbor that investors run to in uncertain times.
The attraction ...
It’s the Last Day to File Those Pesky Taxes
For those of you who have to wait until the last minute to get things done, today is the last day you have to file your taxes early. Uh-oh, not quite ready? Well, you need to file ...
National Mood Improves, Optimism Rises Following Record Stock Highs
Consumer confidence rose dramatically in February
CNN is reporting a record high in optimism as the national mood improves. The number of Americans who say things are going well in ...
The Rise and the Fall of Bitcoin
The last five days have borne witness witness to the bursting of a new bubble we saw inflate recently. This bubble is known as Bitcoin.
Bitcoin (sign: BTC) of course, is a decentralized[6] ...
Why Japan is Doomed and the USA Might be Next
I came across this very compelling visualization of Japan’s debt problem. It shows that their debt is on a path to being unsustainable and sooner or later, debt interest payments ...
The Dow Closes at a Fifth Consecutive Record High Monday
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at a record high for the fifth straight trading day, ending up by 50 points to a record high of 14,447 points. The S&P 500 rose ...
600,000 Full-Time Workers Have Megacommutes Of At Least 90 Minutes And 50 Miles
About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer, 4.3 percent work from home, and nearly 600,000 full-time workers had “megacommutes” of at least ...
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