What was the economic impact of Hurricane Harvey on the price of gasoline? I can answer this personally from a Houston perspective and say it pushed my $2.09 to $2.35, and immediately after the storm it was common not only to experience prices around $3/gallon but shortages …
I've written about Quandl before and the wealth of information they provide in an easy to process way. However their generosity does know limits. While it's difficult to brush up against their daily call limits, I might as well do what I can to be respectful of their service and …
There's some talk in the news about economic policy at the federal reserve taking a turn to start increasing the federal funds rate. Fed president Janet Yellen has indicated on what conditions she will raise it and it appears increasingly likely.
Raising rates is meant to tamp down inflation, but …
I've been following some machine learning tutorials for Python by Sentdex on YouTube. He's notable for his prolific output of Python tutorials on various topics and for making the topics reachable to all audiences.
He has tutorial series in financial analysis, python skills and every sort of interesting thing Python …
This is part two of my Blended Retirement System study. For more information please see my original article, BRS Part 1.
Now that I've made a sample program which can take a user input and provide the correct pay rate, I'm going to do two things: convert my code to …
Blended Retirement System costs, financial analysis of the US Military's new retirement system effective 2018
This is a multi-stage analysis of the new retirement system for all military personel going into effect January 1, 2018. Part one is a programming project in Python adding a calculator to the Department of …
