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Despite What You May Have Heard, There's Hiring Going On

There is a surprising amount of new hiring going on. That may seem strange, given the job losses in the economy, but the widely-quoted figures show net job growth. An unemployed person does not need a net new job, he or she just needs a job. Here's an ...

From DR. DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Forbes Magazine

Russ Roberts's 'The Price of Everything' Really Conveys How the Economy Works

I've been hard-put to recommend an economics book aimed at the layman, because I don't read many of them myself. However, here's a wholehearted recommendation: Russ Roberts's The Price of Everything. The book is written as a novel, though with lots of ...

From DR. DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  9 Nov 2009

Luxury Retailers Should Wait for the Recovery

For years I heard sellers of luxury goods say, "The rich will always have money." Then the recession came and we learned that the rich will not always spend their money. As an example, I wrote a blog post using the mega-yacht business as an example of ...

From DR. DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  24 Sep 2009

All Economic Data Turning Up

You are currently following Dr. Bill Conerly You are no longer following Dr. Bill Conerly The data on foreign trade show both imports and exports looking up. This pattern--a small upturn after a huge decline--is present in lots of current data, ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, Seeking Alpha,  11 Sep 2009

What Do Inventories Mean for the Economic Outlook?

Businesses cut inventories again, according to the latest data released here. Inventory swings are tremendously destabilizing. I'm actually kind of proud of the explanation of this that I wrote in Businomics. (Take a look through Amazon's Look Inside ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, Seeking Alpha,  15 Jul 2009

Credit Default Swaps Are Becoming a Non-Problem

I'm about to tell you how the CDS problem is becoming a non-problem, but first let me quibble about the life insurance parallel. There's a reason that you cannot buy insurance on my life: it would give you a big financial interest in bumping me off. ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Dodge,  Wall Street Journal

New Financial Regulations Try to Fix Self-Correcting Problems

In the midst of the banking crisis, the Obama administration is considering sweeping financial regulations. But before fixing problems with a sledgehammer, let’s assess which of these problems have fixed themselves. It turns out that many of the ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Freddie Mac,  Merrill Lynch,  Fannie Mae

Unemployment vs. Local Public Policy

My friends are telling me I'm an idiot. I was quoted in the local newspaper last week saying that our high unemployment rate was a bit of a mystery. Both friends and strangers have told me that it's simple: Our state has high unemployment because of ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, Seeking Alpha,  29 May 2009

A Long-Term Optimistic Outlook for the Economy

Take 20 minutes and watch this wonderful Ted Talk by Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University. He's a professor but he speaks English. Much of what he says will be familiar to those of you who have heard my presentation, Freedom and Prosperity: The ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, ETF Investor,  24 May 2009
Related Topics: George Mason

New Consensus Economic Forecast: Same Old

A new is out, courtesy of the Philadelphia Fed, and it's not too much different from before, except that Q3 of 2009 is noticeably weaker. Here's the forecast of GDP growth: The economy is contracting slightly this quarter, according to the average ...

From DR. BILL CONERLY, Seeking Alpha,  21 May 2009

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