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Quote of the Day: Trade Reversals

Posted on December 12, 2012 by macromon

Shipping lines used to sail one full container to Asia fromEurope for every three loaded with China-made goods that came back. Those “massive” imbalances are easing now as Europe consumes less and China more, according to BIMCO shipping analyst Peter Sand. … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: True Economics

Posted on December 9, 2012 by macromon

The problem, George, is since  the Second World War…. the problem has been allocating abundance now we’re allocating scarcity.  We’re not very good at it.  – George Will,  This Week With George Stephanopoulos

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French Unemployment Still Rising

Posted on December 6, 2012 by macromon

France’s unemployment rate has risen again, with the picture particularly bleak for young people… Using International Labour Organisation measurements, the jobless total reached 10.3 percent of the workforce in the third quarter of this year. The rise in youth unemployment … Continue reading →

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Creative Destruction: The Music Industry

Posted on December 4, 2012 by macromon

The iTunes store…reinvented music.  Between 2003 and 2007, more than 2,700 record stores vanished, freeing up real estate and capital that could be used for other things. – Michael Saylor, The Mobile Wave

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Cliff Diving – Day 16

Posted on December 3, 2012 by macromon

December, the overall best month for stock performance, isn’t supposed to start like this! The S&P500 opened almost at its high of the day, traded through the 50-day moving average, got spanked  and commenced to sell off the rest of … Continue reading →

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2012: The Year of Stock Market Symmetry

Posted on December 2, 2012 by macromon

We were playing around with the charts on Friday night (‘cuz that’s what nerds do with their Friday nights)  and discovered something very interesting about the 2012 stock market.  The results are illustrated in the table and chart below. The … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Edupreneurs and Investing in Education Startups

Posted on December 2, 2012 by macromon

Global Macro Monitor’s recent post about fast and slow-growing economies looked at national numbers, but did not spend much time focusing on actual industries within localized markets. In the article that follows, contributor Emma Collins takes a deep dive into … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: True Growth Locomotive

Posted on November 25, 2012 by macromon

Our greatness as a country is that we move on in spite of our government. We thrive, not because of Washington but by overcoming it. We succeed because half of our US economy is privately owned and independently managed. That’s … Continue reading →

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The Greek Resistance – Al Jazeera

Posted on November 24, 2012 by macromon

Greece – it is where Europe’s civilisation and the very idea of democracy began. But today the country is in crisis; a crisis that may well destroy the dream of a unified Europe. A dream born out of the nightmare … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day: Government Intervention

Posted on November 19, 2012 by macromon

..in complex systems, we should limit government (and other) interventions to important matters: The state should be there for emergency-room surgery, not nanny-style maintenance and overmedication of the patient—and it should get better at the former. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb,  WSJ … Continue reading →

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