Year: 2010

How is Unemployment at 9.7%, with -800k Revisions?

How in the world do we get a revision of 800k plus on the number of people unemployed and at the same time have a reduction in the unemployment rate? Fishy?

Yes it is, but explainable none the less. With that explanation, it should be noted that this is not going...

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Commodity Chartbook: Energy (USO) (UNG)

Below is one part of a series of charts that we watch related to commodities. We thought that we would provide a glimpse into some of the research and charts that we look at while assessing the economic climate.

From energy to metals, we believe that there is great importance in...

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CHARTS: Payroll Gallery Extraordinaire

Welcome to the Horowitz Gallery of Extraordinary Payroll releases .. Spend some time looking, but do not touch as most of these numbers will certainly be revised shortly.

We will be updating this shortly as we are sure to get further updates and revisions from the BLS.

November nonfarm payroll revised higher...

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China: Giving a Hoot, Not to Pollute? (Cool Graphics)

China is part of the global Co2 emissions problem. So is the U.S and if you ask Al Gore, so are humans for breathing. (Well excuse me for breathing, Al!)

Today, there are a few companies that are involved with the clean up of the “dirty fuels,” but none that are...

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NFP Report Preview: Goldman Prediction is Outlier

There is a very recent divergence of the economists and analysts who are looking forward to the Friday NFP employment numbers. For some time there was unanimous consensus that we would see growth show up in the next NFP print.

But, after the lousy initial claims report that came out yesterday...

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