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The latest stock market rally has started to get on my nerves. It’s not that making money in the market is a bad thing. To the contrary, I...

I have to admit -- Wednesday's retail sales number has been bugging me since it was released. Part of this is because it completely dis...

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Ever since the Fed stopped raising interest rates, they have included a statement in the FOMC statement to the effect that a slowing economy...

From Bloomberg U.S. stocks resumed their fourth- quarter rally, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, after companies repor...

OPEC ministers agreed earlier, at a closed meeting of the 11-nation cartel in Abuja, Nigeria, to leave oil production unchanged for now but...

From the Department of Labor In the week ending Dec. 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 304,000, a decrease of...

From the BLS Import prices rose 0.2 percent in November following the petroleum driven declines of 2.3 percent and 2.2 percent in October an...

I subscribe to a bunch of market letters. There is uniform commentary today about the market's weakness. For example, from Investor Gu...

From the AP The Mortgage Bankers Association, in its quarterly snapshot of the mortgage market released Wednesday, reported that the percent...

From the Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for November, a...

This post could be seen as following up on a number of good posts connected to the state of play with the most recent current accounts numb...

Tula Connell is with the AFL-CIO. I have asked her to contribute to this blog to help enlarge the conversation about unions, international ...

Here is a link to the Fed's statement. Here are a few notes to mention before we get into parsing. The FOMC is not paid to issue panic...

From the Mahablog. A discussion on the public versus private debate between Democrats and Republicans. You know that for years, one of the...

From Bloomberg: The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in October as the price of imported oil dropped and faster growth abroad ...

From Bloomberg: The dollar fell the most in a week against the euro after former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. curre...

Above is a weekly chart for oil. It shows that oil peaked around $80/bbl in August and has been coming down in price since then. At...

The trade deficit and the FOMC announcement are on Tuesday. Expect the usual massive amount of parsing regarding the Fed's statement. R...

Tuesday, Ownit Mortgage Solutions of California shut down , citing "the unfavorable conditions of the mortgage industry." That...