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[...] 7/12/11 – DECADES LONG DOWNWARD TREND CONTINUES - The gradual decline in the ratio of manufacturing labor to total non-farm labor has been going on for more than half a century. It is easy to be [...]

[...] growth so abruptly. We will be exploring that in the next few posts. We’ve shown you manufacturing labor on this same chart to give you a sense for where we are headed. The chart shows [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Here is a simple example of constructing distributions. I am just going to tell you what I did here and do som [...]

[...] function. In mathematical terms, we can describe over 4000 ups and downs of the Dow Jones Industrials with just two numbers: A and k. Further, would you have guessed that the distribution was [...]

[...] intelligence that one can gather. For now, I’m going to try a few examples with the Dow Jones Industrial Index first because it is a ready source of daily data. I will use the period Jan – 1995 [...]

[...] in future posts. 1. I created a data set consisting of the percent changes of the Dow Jones Industrial Index of a particular day with the previous trading day. This was done for every day [...]

[...] 7/22/11 – MANUFACTURING OUTPUT HAS CLIMBED SINCE POST WWII – US industrial output per manufacturing worker has been going up for decades. Rather remarkably, a recent dip in productivity during the [...]

I’m going to explore a bit what you can do with mathematical distributions in Mathematica. Where I am headed is to show some interesting business i [...]

[...] ). In other words, the 2008 recession seems to have caused no lasting effect on manufacturing productivity increases. Regarding the question of jobs moving overseas, Fisher Investments claims that [...]

[...] 7/22/11 – MANUFACTURING OUTPUT HAS CLIMBED SINCE POST WWII – US industrial output per manufacturing worker has been going [...]

[...] Click here to view the embedded video. Here is a simple example of constructing distributions. I am just going to tell you what I did here and do some explaining in future posts. 1. [...]

[...] I’m going to explore a bit what you can do with mathematical distributions in Mathematica. Where I am headed is to show some interesting business intelligence [...]