Brett Scott, an ex-derivatives broker who now blogs at Suitpossum, asks: “What are the 100 Top (Anglo-Saxon) Finance Blogs?” His answer (in the form of a “Pseudo-Scientific Study”) includes the digital explorations of yours truly (I’m honored), along with a wide array of sites ranging from the popular to the relatively obscure. It’s always fun to dig through these lists to discover new blogs and find an excuse to reconnect with familiar sites that, for one reason or another, have fallen off the radar. One intriguing blog on the list that caught my eye, and somehow managed to elude your editor until now: The Research Puzzle.

Tomorrow’s report on retail sales for December (8:30am eastern) is projected to show a 0.3% gain for the month, according to The Capital Spectator’s average econometric forecast. That’s slightly higher than the 0.2% consensus forecast from several surveys of economists. In November, retail sales rose 0.3%, the government reported last month.

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