Friday

You’ve never been able to spell America without AM.  Although the Canadians get credit for it, our world has benefited from Amplitude Modulation since 1906.  That could all be changing.  Many automakers are omitting the technology in their latest cars rolling off the assembly line.  For many, it is an issue with electromagnetic interference as electric vehicles become

It kind of makes sense that income and spending are linked.  Think of your own household.

With the unofficial start to summer right around the corner, “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess which premiered in Boston in 1935 is frequently playing on the Atlas jukebox.  This story centers around an African American couple living in South Carolina on Charleston’s impoverished Catfish Row.

Stress is endemic in the American culture.  For generations now, we’ve defined ourselves and frankly our value on the type of work we do and how many hours we spend doing it. Other exogenous stresses influence us from time to time and the medical profession doesn’t seem to think it is all that healthy at the individual level.

So far, the banking challenges of 2023 have been far from catastrophic.

Unsure if we could use the name of a Beatles song as a title for a note to our audience, Atlas went with Doo-doo-doo-doo, but make no mistake, here comes the sun.  Our planet’s original energy source is spewing solar winds our direction and a second round of them could be arriving today!  Just last week scientists at NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory spotted a coronal hole

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is the first album released by Simon and Garfunkel.  The Sound of Silence is the last track on side one.  This hit song is about the inability of people to communicate and all the difficulties that accompany it.  America is facing such an episode now with our central bank.

Weather and season often offer wonderful metaphors for economics.  Recent storms sweeping the nation are no exception.  Here in Southern California, we’ve had a real winter (by California standards, of course) for the first time in what seems like years; take the above photo from Jerry S.

Economic indicators come is three varieties, differentiated by their timing.  Some offer an insight into the future.  We call these leading indicators; for instance, new orders data help us see a bit over the horizon.  Others tell us more about the here and now; these are coincident indicators like industrial production or personal income.  Finally, there are lagging indicat

Energy is foundational to the global economy.  Wars have been waged over it.  Debates about changes to sources have soured many family dinners over the recent years.  When production gets expensive, that acts like a brake on overall output since there are few viable substitutes; a larger share of consumers’ wallets is diverted to keep lights on and cars running.  In sh