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Last week I wrote the following about the markets: For the last few weeks, I've felt the market was going to be moving sideways. That i...

- by New Deal democrat The big monthly news this week was the continued advance of the Leading Economic Indicators for March, up 0.4. Februa...

From the Conference Board: Says Ataman Ozyildirim, economist at The Conference Board: “The U.S. LEI continued to increase in March, pointin...

Corey looks at the Treasury and silver market. Invictus takes Heritage to task (again) -- and Menzie Chinn follows up as well . College l...

Here is what I wrote about the dollar last week: Adding all of these factors together, we get a chart that is fundamentally very bearish in...

The velocity of money is defined thusly: The speed with which MONEY whizzes around the economy, or, put another way, the number of times it...

- by New Deal democrat Yesterday I discussed how Oil prices have shot up enough to be considered a "shock" to the economy. One ...

From the Federal Reserve: NY: Bankers report decreased demand for consumer loans and residential mortgages, increased demand for commercial...

Last week, I wrote the following about the oil market: Going forward, I would expect prices to continue moving lower. However, I would vie...

From the Federal Reserve: Input prices rose in most Districts, particularly for cotton and other agricultural commodities, petroleum-based ...

- by New Deal democrat With Oil near $110 a barrel and gasoline prices over $3.75 a gallon, it seems worthwhile to revisit a post I wrote ...

The multi-year chart of copper shows that prices are right at levels achieved during the height of the last expansion. Prices -- like most...

From the NY Times: As the United States and Europe struggle to get their economies rolling again, China is having the opposite problem: fig...

From Bloomberg: The most affordable real estate in a generation is failing to lure buyers as Americans like Pauli sour on the idea of home o...

From the Federal Reserve Boston: Business is good overall at most responding manufacturers. One firm in the chemical business reports that ...