The Bonddad Blog

- by New Deal democrat The monthly data this past week was all about income and jobs. The economy added 192,000 jobs in February, and bo...

- by New Deal democrat The good news for me is, I'm up to my eyeballs in work. The bad news for you is, you have to wait until tomorro...

Several weeks ago I wrote a piece called The Sheer Stupidity of U.S. Political Dialog where I noted that people on the right and left were ...

- by New Deal democrat I will put up a detailed summary with updated graphs on Monday, but today really revealed what a sad piece of work mo...

The employment reports for the last few months have been very frustrating, coming in at very low numbers, especially in comparison with the ...

From the WSJ: But the governor said the cuts proposed Tuesday—along with the bill restricting bargaining rights—are necessary to address a...

- by New Deal democrat In my last couple of posts, I discussed how the recovery in manufacturing is giving us very few jobs relative to th...

- by New Deal democrat I have been trying to compare how economic strength has translated into jobs in recoveries past, vs. the present re...

Let's continue the look at the banking sector, by examining the graphs from the report. Click on all graphs for a larger image. We...

With all of the talk surrounding Wisconsin and the governor's desire to end collective bargaining, the issue of unions has again come t...

- by New Deal democrat As Calculated Risk pointed out yesterday, the ISM manufacturing report was an upside blowout, the strongest such rep...

We don't make things in the US is a common refrain in the blogsphere -- as is the idea that US manufacturing is dead. However, nothing ...

Every quarter, the FDIC releases the " Quarterly Banking Profile ," which provides a great overview of the US' banking sector....

From the BEA: Real PCE -- PCE adjusted to remove price changes -- decreased 0.1 percent in January, in contrast to an increase of 0.3 percen...