US Equities Are the Most Expensive Ever in Terms of Average Wages
The current value of 111 hours of production work per unit of S&P500 index is an all time record high
Image of the Day: Making the Statue of Liberty
“The Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris in 1884.”
The US Trade Deficit with China Dwarfs NAFTA
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 6th of September 2017 to The Sounding Line. With the US in the process of renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, and seriously contemplating […]
Image of the Day: Cleveland’s Union Station
“A New York Central Mercury train is dwarfed by Cleveland’s Union Station, November 1936.”
The Declining Relevance of Labor Unions
Less than one in 16 private sector workers are union members today
Cartoon of the Day: Second Class
Direct to The Sounding Line from the great opiner Thurstan Timber comes this installment of ‘Cartoon of the Day:’
How Times Have Changed – Russia Has over 20,000 Tanks, the UK Has 249
When nuclear deterrence is your sole military option, there isn’t a valid military option except to the gravest of existential threats,
Image of the Day – Pentedattilo Calabria
MC Escher, Pentedattilo Calabria, 1930
Steven Bregman: The Diversification Illusion in ETFs – One Big Interest Rate Play
Your not diversified whatsoever. You are really exposed to one great big interest rate play.
Chart of the Day: Oil Bear Markets Can Last 50 Years
Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 29th of August 2017 to The Sounding Line. When crude oil prices began to collapse from over $100 dollars a barrel in the summer […]