Tuesday, April 24, 2012

People Are Finally Figuring Out: Austerity is Stupid

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From the Financial Times: “We can only win back confidence if we bring down excessive deficits and boost competitiveness,” he said. “In ...

UPDATED: Case Shiller seasonally adjusted index UP, areas bottoming increase

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- by New Deal democrat I'll have a lot more to say on housing prices hopefully tomorrow, but I wanted to point out one important but ...

Morning Market Analysis

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Yesterday I noted that I believe the US markets are moving into a period of consolidation.  Today I first wanted to follow-up on that...
Monday, April 23, 2012

The China And EU Slowdown in Charts

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HSBC/Markit released the latest "flash" manufacturing numbers for China.   Before looking these numbers, let's place them in c...

Housing overview part 1: sales, construction, employment, and effects on GDP

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- by New Deal democrat It has been over 6 years since the housing bubble began to burst, triggering the worst financial panic in three-q...

Morning Market Analysis

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First, my overview of the market has changed.  The market is no longer in a rally, but is moving into a period of consolidation.  At the mac...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Shout Out to My Co-Blogger NDD

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Over the last few days, Mish posted a piece titled, "Demographics and Changing Social Trends Behind Gasoline Sales Plunge; What About ...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Weekly Indicators show important transitions in housing and energy sectors

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- by New Deal democrat  The monthly data releases this week included a continuing if small advance in the Leading Economic Indicators of...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Weekend Weimar, Beagle and Pit Bull

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It's that time of the week. I'll be back on Monday; NDD will have weekly indicators on Saturday. Until then ....

1955: Balance of Payments

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This is part of the Bonddad Economic History Project.  For more information, please see the right side of the blog. The above chart fro...

Is the Oil choke collar creating a new seasonality?

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In the last two weeks there has been a sudden and significant increase in first time jobless claims. Last week Prof. Dean Baker wrote that...

A quick note on this week's ECRI WLI

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- by New Deal democrat I haven't had the time to post my beta testing in the last few weeks, but I did want to note before the time of...

Morning Market Analysis

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After breaking support over the last two weeks, the French market is not again at importance technical support levels; the EWQ ETF is tra...