The Bonddad Blog

The dollar's rebound has been the most important story over the last few weeks, which illustrates that the dollar is still a safe haven ...

- by New Deal democrat One rule of netiquette as that you're not supposed to "feed the trolls," but how can I help it when the...

From Bloomberg: The average shopper in the U.S. spent 6.4 percent more over Thanksgiving weekend than last year as more people picked up jew...

As we get near the end of the year, it seems appropriate to start looking at a macro view of the US economy to see just exactly where we are...

Actually, as I was out of the market for last week on vacation, this is a great opportunity to look at the market and see where all the mark...

- by New Deal democrat This week's big number, without doubt, was the drop in initial jobless claims to 407,000, the lowest reading in t...

With the exception of weekly indicators on Friday, we'll be back on Monday. Have a good and safe weekend.

From Bloomberg: Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell more than forecast last week to the lowest level since July 2008, re...

- by New Deal democrat One of the best short-term precursors to job growth (besides real retail sales) is GDP growth. Generally it takes 2% ...

From Bloomberg: Not far from where Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke grew up, a revolution inside a Campbell Soup Co. plant explain...

Note -- I'm traveling with an old computer, so the daily charts won't be up until I return home next Monday. From the BEA: Real gros...

From Bloomberg: The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.7 percent, and “if it wasn’t for cable news, we probably wouldn’t have any idea ...

- by New Deal democrat This blog has been totally silent on the "Foreclosuregate" crisis - and after this post, likely will contin...

I didn't get to this last week, but wanted to go into detail now while I've got time: From the Federal Reserve: Industrial productio...

A quick note: I'm traveling this week, and the computer I brought has now taken one trip to many. Keeping multiple programs open at the...

From Bloomberg: Ireland applied for a bailout to help fund itself and save its banks, becoming the second euro member to seek a rescue from ...

- by New Deal democrat Fourteen months ago, I wrote that Some time ago, Prof. Brad DeLong of Berkeley, thinking aloud with graph, drew a ...

There are two important trend lines in the short term market: (a) -- which prices have clearly broken and (b), which prices have also broken...

We'll be back on Monday

- by New Deal democrat This week's big data had to be the very strong retail sales number on Monday, the 4th positive number in a row....