…for well over a decade, and now have fallen off a cliff. If gasoline delivery is just-in-time, as I believe it is, then deliveries are an excellent proxy for consumption….

…USD denominated assets for a proxy of global portfolio diversification – another post – I digress. The EA foreign direct investment is, and has generally been, negative. Foreign direct investment…

…goes back to 1929, please let me know. I’d like to drop it into the model. I’d also love a good proxy for regulation. Don’t be afraid to offer other…

…internalize other fallacious bits of journalistic laziness as well: like the idea that the direction of the stock market is a good proxy for the future health of the economy,…

…official data on GDP for that period, I used recessions as a proxy for how well (or poorly) the economy was doing. I note that there was no sign whatsoever…

…the G-7. Considering the source of profits, the soaring stock market appears less a beacon of prosperity than a reliable proxy for America’s new misery index. Mark Whitehouse of The…

…prices. It gives a proxy for the inflation effect of fiscal austerity (hike in VAT, for example). Although the uptick in inflation is warranted at this stage in the recovery,…

by Beverly Mann The Fine Print It’s hardly a secret that Chamber of Commerce types have co-opted a bare majority of the Supreme Court as their proxy in their war…

…is so rigid, his or her sympathies so utterly controlling, that the judge is not really a judge but instead a proxy in a robe. The issue of the expenses-paid…

…predicting that business-proxy Roberts and anti-libertarian Alito indeed would part company with Tea Partiers Scalia and Thomas and vote to uphold the insurance mandate. OK, well, I was in a…