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In honor of National Statistics Day (yes, it is really a thing), here is a brief thread with some statistics humor, which our models show 85.6% of you will enjoy.

Here is an article to Peter's point about farmland, from 2007.

A lot of analysts are unaware that the moment of a Golden or Death Cross can mark an end to the price move which brought about that crossing. See this article from 2023. mcoscillator.com/learning_cente…

For reference, the 33°C in Frankfurt equates to 91°F. Yes, that's hot, but not boiling lava hot. And the 24°C in Hamburg is a pleasant 75°F.

Since "fossil" comes from Latin "fossilis", meaning dug up, and since uranium is dug up, technically that means nuclear power is fossil fuel.

Why does it take that long? How about now? Do they have a big stockpile of synthetic dyes they want to work through, so they don't have to pay to dispose of them as toxic waste?

M2/GDP is actually starting to curl upward. There is about a 23-month lag time (H/T Steve Hanke) in how CPI responds to this. So look for inflation to perk up again in late 2025 to early 2026.

Dear financial journalists, It isn't that uncertainty has declined since April; it is that our feelings of uncertainty have declined. There's a difference. The world is and will always be uncertain. The future is inherently unknown. What changes isn't the world; it's us.

"There's never been a better time to buy stocks." - - Alan Greenspan, New York Times Business Section, January 4, 1973, one week before the start of a 45% decline. Fed Chairman Powell: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There’s just too many areas of the

Update: He was not serious, he was just joshing those guys.

Bernanke gets his own collection.

Roy A. Young was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (officially titled Governor of the Federal Reserve Board at the time) in 1929. He served from October 4, 1927, to August 31, 1930. He arguably ought to be in the running.

Yes, but what was the nature of the Goldilocks chatter? Was it too warm, or too cold...

Yeah? What's he reading on the other side of that menu, which he is looking at? Not a very good meme.

Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. This is a thread about ugly buildings, right?

Again, not at all. I'm on the side of having the Fed chairman recognize what the law is that Congress passed, instead of making up his own target. And I am on the side of the Fed chairman going to Congress and saying that given the tools he has available to him, he cannot

The best price tops come when there is a divergence between the NAAIM Exposure Index and the SP500. We don't have one yet. Having said that, it is possible to get a top without a divergence. And some divergences don't work out.

Es importante entender que los datos del COT Report sumen posiciones de los categorias de traders. Cada contrato de futuros es simultaneo 1 long y 1 short. Entonces, el total de posiciones esta equilibrado entre iqual partes de los longs y los shorts. Pero, aquellos contratos son

Do you really want someone getting on your plane with a 16 oz. Listerine bottle that they emptied and refilled with lighter fluid? Really?

Last week's COT Report (just out on Monday due to the holiday) showed that the small "non-reportable" traders of Japanese yen futures are really optimistic about the yen moving higher. The market likes to punish such enthusiasm by these traders.