Snowstorm actually BOOSTED holiday sales (online shopping to the rescue)

Kind of a fascinating factoid. Last week's east coast blizzard, coming days before Christmas, actually boosted retail sales, because people shopped at home online. Raises a fascinating question...

Wrapping Up 2009’s Search for Christmas (Year 5)

This is the fifth year I have looked into how the media treats these two topics:The use of “Christmas shopping season” vs. “holiday shopping season” (note how the AP photo at right uses “holiday”...

Imelda Obama

From May:From last night (HT Gateway Pundit):Besides the obvious point that press sniping about First Ladies of conservative presidents engaging in such extravagance in a difficult economy would...

An Update, 2010, And Beyond

Hey, this option trading using deep-in-the-money contracts really works well. There is little loss of option value due to time passing by and price movements reflect stock price movements with a...

AP, Aversa Conveniently Change Their Definition of ‘Recession’

The Associated Press’s business writers and many others in the establishment press spent just over a year reminding readers at seemingly every conceivable opportunity that the recession began...