Those who draw their income primarily from wages have been squeezed. However, those that draw more income from their savings and investments have fared better. This is the story behind the growing disparity of income in...
The Italian 10-year premium over Germany (white line) has generally fallen over the past year as the dollar against the euro (yellow line). Of course, as one would expect the euro is more volatile than the 10-year interest...
This Great Graphic was compiled by the Wall Street Journal, based on their own survey data and forecasts by the Federal Reserve. It shows this year’s inflation forecasts by the Federal Reserve, economists and...
This Great Graphic was tweeted by Visual.ly. It was created by Kurtosys, based on data from EPFR and Deutsche Bank. It shows fund flows, including ETFs, over the past decade, as a percentage of total assets. ...
This Great Graphic was tweeted as a picture by Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer. It shows the top 15 military budgets for last year. The projection that global military expenditures are set to increase in 2014 for...
The main event of the day, of course, was the ECB meeting and, despite the weakening of its two pillars of monetary policy (inflation and money supply), it chose to neither change policy nor its overall assessment. This does...
In the run-up to US President Obama’s 5th State of the Union Speech, he indicated he will sign an executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contract employees to $10.10 an hour. The current applicable...
This Great Graphic was posted on CNN Money by Tami Luhby. It shows the percentage income in a eight countries, including the US, that the richest 1% receive. The lighter bars are for 1981 and the darker bars are for...
We argue that part of the euro’s rise over the past several months reflects a reassessment of Spain’s outlook. Many global investors had been under-weight Europe though most of H1 13, favoring the US and...
The Jamaican bobsledding team qualified for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games, but did not have the resources for training, equipment or travel expenses. It relied on crowd funding. Many people donated in the form of...