financial news

I do have a lot of links though and here they are. The big issue is the economic slowing in the US and Europe. These articles demonstrate that the global slowdown is spreading beyond the eurozone periphery and is well entrenched in the US…

One thing Austrians harp on is the misallocation of resources caused by heavy handed and persistent interest rate market intervention. They are right that the industrial organization and the structure of investment capital priorities is…

I am going to try a different format for the daily today because I have a number of foreign language articles. This time, I am going to give a brief synopsis of each article rather than just having a main talking point at the outset. This…

The US: autos Last month I wrote one daily on the auto sector’s effect on non-recession reading. The gist of that post was that the auto sector was positively influencing both production and employment, helping the US avoid outright…

Everyone seems to be talking about Mario Draghi these days. They think his comments about the ECB doing "whatever it takes" are important. They're not. They are meaningless. Here's why.

Everywhere the slowdown is getting worse, from the UK, the US auto and manufacturing sectors to Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, China and Australia.

The Wired Interview with Samsung's Chief Product Officer Kevin Packingham is a good jumping off point for understanding the patent wars between Apple and Android. Steve Jobs famously saw Android as a rip off that he was going to try to…

The story on Apple's margins is even more interesting when you look at how high its iPhone margins are. Analysts have calculated that the gross margins on the iPhone are nearly twice the margin on the iPad. And this suggests that Apple…

This daily will have to be quick since I am in transit. The best highlight here is jobless claims and how the auto sector is affecting both production and employment positively, potentially keeping the US from falling into outright…

Apple is in a market share/margin quandary that was inevitable, Steve Jobs or not.