Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Are Higher Food Prices Coming?

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Consider the following recent stories From Agrimoney.com Concerns over drought in western Europe and North Africa shifted up a gear as ...

Why haven't consumers stopped spending?

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- by New Deal democrat As I've noted a number of times, exhausted consumers are the best case for economic pessimism. Real wages have d...

Exporter's Currencies Signaling Possible Problems

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Yesterday, I noted that the BRIC countries are slowing down .  This has been caused by high inflation, which in turn has forced central bank...

Morning Market Analysis

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The IWMs -- which represent the Russell 2000 - are still at resistance.  To make this a real, overall breakout, we need to see the risk o...
Monday, March 19, 2012

1955: GDP Overview

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This post is part of the Bonddad Economic History Project.  The purpose of this is to go back through the US' economic history and see w...

If the BRICs are Slowing, Where Does That Leave The Rest of Us?

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Last week, I looked at the BRICs from the Macro level (see Brazil , Russia , India and China ).  Today, I want to look at them from a compa...

Consumer spending pattern does not support ECRI's recession call

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- by New Deal democrat This week I want to revisit and update my forecast from the beginning of the year . That forecast boiled down to s...

Morning Market Analysis, Rally On Edition

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The big story last week was the sell-off in the treasury market across all maturities.  While all their respective MACDs were signali...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Weekly Indicators: summer in spring edition

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- by New Deal democrat Starting with the monthly reports, retail sales were up strongly, even after accounting for inflation. Industrial ...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Weekend Weimar, Beagle and Pit Bull

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It's that time of the week.  Stop thinking about the market for a few days.  NDD will post the weekly indicators this weekend; we'll...

Is the Wall Street Journal Worth It Anymore?

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Sometime over the next few months, my yearly digital subscription for the WSJ comes due.  And, once again, I'm faced with this question:...

The BRIC Countries: China

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From the CIA Fact Book: Since the late 1970s China has moved from a closed, centrally planned system to a more market-oriented one that...