Thus far this year the US economy has managed to dodge the expected recession and there has been many a sigh of relief as the worst of the predictions have not come to pass. For those that have been paying…

I suppose it is time to retrieve my reputation as a dismal scientist. In previous reports i have been uncharacteristically upbeat as i discussed the fact that we kept managing to miss recession but this is not to say that…

“Mixed” – The Economist’s Version of “Partly Cloudy” What does it mean when data is described as mixed? This has to be one of the most common economic catch-phrases and seems to say, “we have no idea what is going…