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- by New Deal democrat The monthly data releases this week showed that consumer, producer, and commodity inflation were all abating. All ...

- by New Deal democrat This is a slightly truncated version of Weekly Indicators, as I'm preparing it before leaving on a weekend trip, ...

- by New Deal democrat The monthly data releases this week were mainly about housing. Permits, an important long leading indicator, rose t...

- by New Deal democrat Starting with the monthly reports, retail sales were up strongly, even after accounting for inflation. Industrial ...

- by New Deal democrat Monthly releases were dominated by the payrolls report, which disappointed only in that it wasn't more of a blo...

- by New Deal democrat In the rear view mirror Q4 2011 GDP was revised up to 3.0%. Monthly releases were sharply mixed with some signific...

- by New Deal democrat Exactly one year ago today the title of this column was dueling inflection points edition , as both initial jobless c...

- by New Deal democrat Monthly reports came in generally weakly positive. Retail sales were up 0.4% but only 0.2% after inflation. Indus...

- by New Deal democrat There was very little in the way of monthly data released during the past week: consumer confidence fell slightly,...

- by New Deal democrat Most of the monthly reports released this week were stellar. 243,000 new jobs were added, and the internals, inclu...

- by New Deal democrat First, as to the monthly reports, home sales continued poor, but consumer confidence jumped back further, completel...

- by New Deal democrat Before turning to the high frequency weekly indicators, as usual let's briefly check out the monthly reports. ...

- by New Deal democrat Happy New Year! In 2012 I am making some additions and improvements to this weekly recap of high frequency indicat...