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- by New Deal democrat [Special note to Seeking Alpha readers: In addition to Hale Stewart a/k/a Bonddad, Silver Oz, myself, and every on...

The above chart is from Ryan's economic projections, courtesy of Professor Krugman. It assumes that under the Ryan plan, there will be...

From the WSJ: After months of tough talk to speculators and other governments driving up the Brazilian real, Finance As Mr. Mantega announc...

The multi-year chart shows the dollar in a clear consolidation pattern. On the top, prices are contained by a downward sloping line while p...

Yesterday the economic blogsphere ganged up on the Heritage Foundation. I believe it started with Paul Krugman . I added my thoughts, and...

- by New Deal democrat With March's payrolls number reported, let me update a few of the series showing how weekly initial jobless cla...

On the multi-year chart, Gold is clearly in a bull market. First, there is a strong upward sloping trendline that started at the beginning...

I know that many people have commented recently on the impact of the baby boomers on the labor force (and the participation rate), but I wan...

The traditional concept most people have of recessions is businesses lay people off with the intention of hiring them back when the economy ...

Several days ago, I complimented Representative Ryan for actually addressing the primary problem facing the US -- medical payments as a perc...

On the weekly chart, oil prices have moved through key resistance areas and are approaching a third. Note the length of time that prices we...

From Bloomberg: China raised interest rates for the fourth time since the end of the global financial crisis to restrain inflation and limi...

- by New Deal democrat As regular readers of this blog know, leaving aside the month over month variation, each quarter over the last 5 qua...

From Fed President Lockhart: First, the deleveraging of the household sector is rather well advanced and continuing. Households are repairi...

The chart above is a long-term (4+ year chart) and shows that Treasuries have been rallying for the better part of four years. This period ...

- by New Deal democrat Every now and then I do a google search to see who if anyone has picked up on Bonddad's or my posts. Recently I ...

- by New Deal democrat I've been blogging now for about 6 years. The first chapter of my blogging involved documenting the turn from h...

From the WSJ: Republicans will present this week a 2012 budget proposal that would cut more than $4 trillion from federal spending projecte...

I'm going to return to a daily focus on particular markets. Expect the following for the next month: Equities on Monday, Treasuries on ...

- by New Deal democrat The week's headline numbers were the 216,000 jobs added in March and the continued decline in the unemployment ra...