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There were a few articles on the yield curve over the week -- one in the WSJ and one in Barron's. So I thought this would be a good tim...

From the Financial Times: The Chinese economy eclipsed the Japanese economy in size in the second quarter after Japan posted poor economic g...

- by New Deal democrat First of all, my apologies to readers. I wasn't able to get to the longer piece I had hoped to write over the wee...

Let's start with a few macro observations. First, the market has been bouncing between two Fibonacci levels this year. Corey over at A...

- by New Deal democrat A few months ago, I posted a photograph of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii by night, and recommended that readers put the s...

- by New Deal democrat Yesterday and today, I've been addressing the conundrum that virtually every measure typically used to measure ...

- by New Deal democrat A conundrum I have noted several times in the last several months is the wide divergence between the large percentage...

First, notice that the lows from Wednesday provided a "zone of resistance" for any upward movement in yesterday's market. Yest...

From Bloomberg: The outlook for the August employment report is off to a bad start in what can't be good for today's stock market. ...

- by New Deal democrat Atrios this morning says that "The forgotten foreclosure crisis [ ] keeps getting worse." Ummm, no. Yes, fo...

- by New Deal democrat About a week ago, our occasional co-blogger Invictus, who now typically hangs out at the more spacious digs of Barry ...

Notice that prices were in a tight range for the last 8 days. However, yesterday prices moved lower in a big way (b). Prices gapped lower (...

Several weeks ago, I wrote two articles comparing this recovery to the other two jobless recoveries (see here and here ). I came to the co...

From the FT: Russia has begun counting the economic toll of the worst heatwave since records began as economists warned that the wildfires ...

With the dollar recent drop, I was thinking it would be a good time to look at the dollar/ISM relationship to see if the dollar's recent...

For the last week or so, the market has been unable to overcome key resistance levels. That trend continued yesterday. The SPYs are still f...

From the Federal Reserve: To help support the economic recovery in a context of price stability, the Committee will keep constant the Feder...

From the BLS: Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 0.9 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2010, the U.S. ...

- by New Deal democrat In this post I want to take address a secular change in the economy. One of the questions that frequently gets as...