Census Bureau monthly report which I broke out a bit differently to make it an easier read or maybe not? I do like inventories being down. Monthly Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders. – Press Release The purpose of the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey is to provide broad-based monthly statistical […]
I’m reading every now and then about the future of robot assisted medicine. Robots have long replaced humans in routine, repetitive tasks like auto assembly, but surgery seems like a bespoke activity beyond the reach of robots. Not so. A few years ago, I had mesh hernia repair surgery. The procedure was robotic-assisted laparoscopy. There […]
I can not give you charts or graphs in this commentary. However, it is a good read and I hope you take the time to read it. The story reminds me of a factory where I consulted, in the city of Bryan Ohio. Bryan was a neat little town with its Town Hall and County […]
There is more to this report on Labor than what I am presenting here. Consulting to manufacturing gave me an excellent background on the costs of Labor as compared to Overhead and Materials. Whacking Labor does not gain business much in return and will lead to inefficiency in manufacture and delivering a timely product. If […]
Be safe and be aware of the people around you. It might even be best to stay close to home after voting. Everybody is hyped up and on edge. Out of interest and If you think of it, maybe report on what you saw today? This is one of the strangest elections in which I […]
ICE Mortgage Monitor: “Annual home price growth cooled for the seventh consecutive month” – by Bill McBride Calculated Risk Newsletter Here is the ICE November Mortgage Monitor report (pdf). Press Release: ICE Mortgage Monitor: Record Levels of Tappable Equity, Fed Rate Cuts Could Spur Resurgence in Home Equity Withdrawals Mortgage Delinquencies Increased in September Here is a graph […]
Or is it even a decision the United States should be making for a woman? People keep popping up on AB threads talking about such when it is not a topic of the thread. Rules; Polite discussions or faced being trashed or tossed in spam. Be on topic. I will take down the post if […]
Harris has been criticized for giving vague answers to policy questions, but the fact is we have a reasonably good idea what policies a President Harris would pursue. If elected, she will behave as we expect a Democratic president to behave. On the other side of the aisle, it is easy to overlook how uncertain […]
When alcoholic beverages were illegal in America, drinking didn’t stop. Alcohol smuggling just became lucrative for criminal gangs. Drugs like cocaine and heroin have been illegal for decades. Consumption of cocaine and heroin didn’t stop; smuggling of these drugs just became lucrative for criminal gangs. Making undocumented migration illegal and militarizing the Mexican border didn’t […]
The Wall Street Journal to which I subscribe to. Author is Jesse Newman. A good read in presenting the problem. The price of a bag of coconut-cashew granola at Whole Foods jumped last year from $5.99 to $6.69. Why that happened defies simple explanation. This is not unusual for a part of a Grocery Bill. […]