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From the NY Times: At malls from New Jersey to California, shoppers are snapping up electronics and furniture, as fears of joblessness yie...

- by New Deal democrat One the phrases both Bonddad and I have been using (I'm going to take credit for being first) is that in this g...

The latest durable goods orders came out last week, but there are important points to make about it. First, the overall trend was a decreas...

The big mover last week was the Russell 2000 which has the best performing of the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ. Let's take a look at the...

It's that time of the week -- time to think about anything except the markets. We'll all be back on Monday

- by New Deal democrat This was housing week in the monthly data department. Both existing and new home sales increased, new sales surpris...

From the AP Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency sta...

From the NY Times: In 2004, well before the risks embedded in Wall Street’s bets on subprime mortgages became widely known, employees at S...

- by New Deal democrat Last week the Rockefeller Institute issued its report on state finances [pdf] for the 4th quarter of 2009. Since ...

Let's take a look at the difference between the IWCs (micro-caps) and the SPYs (large caps) a.) Prices move higher on a strong bar b.) P...

The dollar is in a clear uptrend and has consolidated in several downward sloping pennants (a and b). In addition, the dollar is in a solid...

The ratings agencies are a big part of the problem. Most large institutional investors have funds that have specific investment guidelines,...

I am posting this with a h/t to Barry Ritholtz over at the Big Picture who gave me an idea with his post on Fannie Mae regarding what woul...

From Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims fell back to trend in the April 17 week, coming in at a largely as-expected 456,000 and reversing two...

This post accidentally went "live" while I was trying to clean it up. I'll repost once done. In the meantime, apologies to Bro...

The main issue this week is will the markets hold to their trends? There is a tremendous amount of downward pressure right now, largely fro...

a.) Prices broke this uptrend three days ago, in the correction that started with the SEC's Goldman suit. b.) This line of resistance is...

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From Reuters: Rising tax receipts will likely reduce U.S. government borrowing needs in the rest of this fiscal year and fiscal 2011, Morg...

Over at Macroblog there is a great discussion on bank size. As always, the issues are incredibly complicated.