Bloomberg L.P.

Using relative performance measures and context to gain perspective in post trade TCA

When you make a trade, there will be trading costs, but what’s the best way to measure those costs? The basic principle in TCA is to compare your achieved execution price to some observed benchmark, ...
Chicago Tribune

Ask Tom: Is there a way other than relative humidity to measure water content?

Relative humidity has been used to describe moisture levels in the atmosphere for so long that it has become the most common (though often misunderstood) moisture measurement. And there is truth to ...
The New York Times

The Unfinished Pursuit of a Better Poverty Measure

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...
American Enterprise Institute

Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure

The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The SPM ...