If only I didn't have to be here on the inside looking out, I might be in a park somewhere today, with a kite. This would appear to be perfect March kite weather, with sunny skies, highs in the 60s and sustained winds predicted to be around 20 mph. Gusts could reach 45 to 50 mph, forecasters say. In...

  At 10:30 a.m. we've already reached 60 degrees in downtown Baltimore - topping the NWS forecast (59 degrees) for the afternoon's high. But before you put away your winter togs, you need to know that we're in for a - you guessed it - "wintry mix" this weekend as sharply colder&n...

We're coming to the conclusion that a lot of people have the wrong idea about chaos. For example, if you ask someone if the stock market is a pretty chaotic place these days, they'll say it is and what's more, we'll agree with them. If then you ask them if that's a good thing or a bad thing, they'll...

If you're a regular reader of Political Calculations, you might be surprised to find out that some of our better analytical work doesn't even appear on our own site. And we're okay with that! Here's an example, using our favorite industrial punching bag, the auto industry*. Our long-time readers wil...

Well in case you haven't heard the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the weekend said that the recession is over. HARRAHHH!! But wait. Now the bad news. Before you go jumping for joy, they've now declared that most advanced economies in the world are in a depression. So, now w...

Things are never what they appear to be, especially in geopolitics. Former Forbes writer and b usiness and energy journalist Jim (or James) Norman, who wrote the book- The Oil Card, and blew the whistle on Enron with the SEC, argues that the United States manipulated the price of oil as a kind...

Technology is not just a double edged sword-paradoxical good and bad effects. It’s far more complex-it’s a quadruple blade or four-edged blade sword. McLuhan predicted and warned us that every technology or human invented construct has 4 simultaneous effects on culture and society, which strateg...

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The mercury sank to just 13 degrees this morning at BWI - 15 at The Sun and 12 degrees out on the WeatherDeck in Cockeysville. And tonight promises to be another very cold night as clear skies open the window for quick radiational cooling. Not that we gained much solar heating today. I was on assign...

This week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) provided their latest estimate of annual existing home sales for 2009 again revising down their 2009 total year sales forecast to 5.11 million units. As usual, the latest forecast comes with another dose of truly ridiculous spin. In an effort to ...