Global economy going nowhere fast

Global economy going nowhere fast

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- So much for merger mania getting investors excited.

Stocks were off to a brutal start Tuesday, following a lackluster Monday. Even though the pace of corporate takeovers is picking up, investors just aren't buying the notion that more mergers could lead to higher stock prices. ...

The Return of Greek Tragedy - CNBC

The Return of Greek Tragedy - CNBC

By: Reported by David Faber, written by Gennine Kelly

Economist Joseph Stiglitz is warning that Europe is at risk of going into a double-dip.

According to Bloomberg, the Noble Prize winner told Dublin-based RTE Radio on Tuesday that when the Euro-area governments stepped up efforts to cut deficits to below the European Union limit of 3 percent of gross domestic product, so many in Europe focused on this "3 percent artificial number, which has no reality and is just looking at one side of a balance sheet," Stiglitz said. ...

CNBC Stock Market News — Why Markets Will Avoid Double-Dip: Chief Strategist - CNBC

CNBC Stock Market News — Why Markets Will Avoid Double-Dip: Chief Strategist - CNBC

By: JeeYeon Park

With stocks lower for the fourth trading session, are we headed for a double-dip? David Kelly, chief market strategist at JPMorgan Funds, and Sandy Lincoln, investment strategist at M&I Investment Management, shared their insights. ...

Gross Says Mortgage Yields Would Soar Without Government Aid

Gross Says Mortgage Yields Would Soar Without Government Aid

Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest mutual fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said mortgage yields in the U.S. could rise as much as 4 percentage points without government support. ...

Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg - CNBC

Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg - CNBC

By: Jeff Cox

Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday. ...

Bacon prices sizzle. Consumers feel the heat.

Bacon prices sizzle. Consumers feel the heat.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Bringing home the bacon is getting more expensive.

Whether it's a bacon cheeseburger from a local diner or packs of bacon on grocery store shelves, you can expect to pay a higher price for your favorite cured meat until demand simmers down or more hogs are bred. ...

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Draco Econometrics

The open-source statistics package with an easy-to-understand interface

Draco is an open-source econometric solution, providing functionality available in popular statistics packages without high purchasing and licensing costs. Draco presents a familiar, yet powerful, user interface to improve efficiency.

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The R Project for Statistical Computing

The R Project for Statistical Computing

Introduction to R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R. ...

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Gretl

Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library

Is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is is free, open-source software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/

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Daniel's XL Toolbox - Free and Open-Source Add-In for Excel

Daniel's XL Toolbox - Free and Open-Source Add-In for Excel

Daniel's XL Toolbox is a free, open-source add-in for Excel® that helps you to analyze and present data.