Inventions in Everything: Makeup Applicator for Cat Eyes

Sometimes, we here at the Inventions in Everything team are surprised by what's lurking behind the title of a patent. Usually, the tit...

The Convergence and New Divergence of GE and the S&P 500

Two months ago, we compared the trajectories of the S&P 500 (Index: INX ) and General Electric (NYSE: GE ) to the flight paths of starl...

Home Unaffordability in U.S. Hits New High

The trailing twelve month average of median new home sale prices in the United States reached a new high in March 2018, where preliminary ...

Sixty Years of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Measurements

The Mauna Loa Observatory has been collecting atmospheric carbon dioxide data for sixty years. Located in Hawaii, the observatory's r...

Inventions in Everything: Optical Illusions to Enhance Safety

How can you get cars to slow down in areas where there can be a lot of pedestrian traffic? A depressingly common solution to that problem ...

To Whom Does the U.S. Government Owe Money?

The U.S. government's 2017 fiscal year officially ended on 30 September 2017. At that time, we knew that the total public debt outsta...

U.S. Recession Odds Tick Slightly Upward, Remain Very Low

The risk of a national recession beginning in the United States anytime in the next twelve months, or specifically between 13 April 2018 a...

Inventions in Everything: The Future of Ironing

It's not often that we're wowed by a marketing pitch introducing new technology, but the problems solved by a device named Effie h...

The Growth Rate of S&P 500 Dividends Per Share in the 21st Century

One of the most important and perhaps least well known metrics for the U.S. stock market is the growth rate of dividends for the S&P 50...

Math to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering

Last fall, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case involving how the boundaries of voting districts are drawn by state legislatures, Gill v W...

U.S. Soybean Exports Are Fungible

Since China's leaders appear to have adopted the "madman negotiation technique" to retaliate against the U.S. in the budding ...

Inventions in Everything: The Sock Slider

Sometimes, you just have to see something on TV to believe that it exists. The Sock Slider is just such an invention: And yes, you can ...

Who Cut Dividends in March 2018?

In running through dividends by the numbers for March 2018, we found that a total of 92 U.S. firms declared that they would cut their divi...

Trade Wars: China's "Madman" Retaliation

Overnight, the trade wars between the U.S. and China sharply escalated, when China's leaders communicated their seriousness to retaliat...