Friday

Inflation is a challenge for any family’s plan to retire.  Ask Tom Brady.  After leaving the NFL last month, he announced a comeback earlier this week.  Could soaring prices have been the driver?  Ok, probably not, especially since he will reportedly earn $25 million for playing the season.

Over on the right-hand side of the periodic table is a column of six elements which collectively comprise the noble gases.  These elements have single-atom molecules and don’t typically interact with others the way, say, two oxygen atoms might with a hydrogen to produce a molecule of water.  Instead, these nobles are content to remain on their own. 

Headlines are grim.  Russia seems hell bent on establishing a new Iron Curtain.

(Thanks to Professor Chuck for passing on this article which inspired this morning’s note)

Inflation is up.  Since the beginning of this century, price appreciations have been relatively modest.  That isn’t to say America hasn’t experienced inflation, we have.  But under the watch of Federal Reserve Chairs Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and most of Jerome Powell’s first term, price gains were measured.  In fact, some argue that the F

Econometrics is a study of economic systems using statistical methods. Bored yet?  It uses mathematical models to describe the behavior of an economy.  Most of the time a system behaves in some sort of trending pattern.  Every once in a while, however, there is sufficient change in the pattern which gets described as a structural break.

Pendulums are simple mechanical objects.  They are made of just three parts: a pivot, a rod, and a bob at the end of the rod.

Holes can crop up anywhere.  There’s always one on a perfectly quaffed putting green.  Although I’ve never see it, there is supposed to be a big one in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy.  Analysts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons might comment on one which opens up when a blocking scheme is particularly effective during football season.  And every once in a whi