in Venezuela: There is more at The Daily Shot, WSJ, here.... I guess I shouldn’t complain about my Starbucks addiction...
Co-movement of the Dollar and Oil Prices… Liberty Street Economics
Liberty Street Economics is the excellent series from the New York Fed... Here is a recent posting: Thomas Klitgaard, Paolo Pesenti, and Linda Wang,
Performance chart, updated… Ben Carlson
Ben Carlson updates his asset performance chart here...
US Carbon emissions +3.8% in 2018… NY Times
Brad Plumer, NY Times writes here... ““The big takeaway for me is that we haven’t yet successfully decoupled U.S. emissions growth from economic
Constrained New England… RBN Energy
The always excellent RBN Energy has a nice piece on the problems of generating power in New England, here... ”...New England’s power sector in the
Natural gas, 2018 summary… EIA
The EIA’s Today in Energy is in summary mode, but I’m very happy they continue to publish... Here are some excellent charts showing natural gas
The Year in Charts…Pension Partners
Charlie Bilello has a nice chart book on 2018, here... via Ritholtz, here...
Give Trump credit for lower energy prices? WSJ
Yes, says Jason Bordoff, Columbia University, quoted in Spencer Jakab’s piece in the Wall Street Journal, here... ”In a decidedly backhanded
NY Fed’s GDP Nowcast remains about unchanged after jobs report….
The NY Fed latest update, here, shows 4Q GDP growth now at +2.49%, +.01 from its last estimate... Yesterday’s jobs numbers were mostly a wash with