The Bonddad Blog

OK -- so where is inflation right now? Well, it depends on who you ask. According to the BLS, it decreased last month. The Consumer Price I...

Have a safe holiday Special congratulations out to Steve Clemmons who had puppies recently.

The QQQQs closed in a precarious position today. They are just above support right below $43. The sell-off was on less volume than a big s...

The following is from a speech by Fed President Jeffrey Lacker yesterday. In any event, the weakness in housing will continue to be a drag o...

From Bloomberg: Toyota Motor Corp. expects demand for its fuel-efficient cars in the U.S., Asia and Europe to raise vehicle sales 6 percent ...

With the holiday's approaching, posting will drop a bit. I will be traveling Saturday afternoon to the the bond parents. I will be ret...

As we get closer to the year end, it's time to look at charts from a standpoint of what happened in 2006 and what may happen in 2007. F...

From the Philadelphia Federal Reserve: Overall economic conditions in the region’s manufacturing sector declined slightly in December, accor...

From the BEA: Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States --...

I just got done reading the following post from Morgan Stanley and thought it would be a good time to see how business if feeling about the...

As my screen name implies, I use to be involved with the bond market. I was a bond broker with several regional firms before I went to law ...

This is actually Tula Connell's post. We're experiencing some behind-the-scenes technical difficulty with passwords and such right ...

From Bloomberg: Emerging-market stocks rallied from the biggest drop in three months after Thailand exempted stocks from capital controls im...

Below are some posts from homebuilding related news stories from December. The stories are from the Yahoo homebuilding sector web page. Fir...

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 2.0 percent in November, seasonally adjusted, the...

From Bloomberg Investors based abroad will be able to invest just 70 percent of funds transferred to Thailand, and only recoup all of their ...

U.S. home builders were a bit more pessimistic about the housing market in December, but they're growing more hopeful that home sales co...

Bonddad is a Democrat. Considering I have written for Daily Kos for the last 2 years, that shouldn't be a surprise. Clinton balanced t...

From the Bureau of Economic Analysis The U.S. current-account deficit--the combined balances on trade in goods and services, income, and net...

Standard Dow theory stares the averages must confirm each other's movements. For example, if the Dow increases, than the transports sho...