The Bonddad Blog

  - by New Deal democrat The big monthly news this week was that inflation took off, with sharp increases in both producer and consume...

More accurately, after college I was a professional musician in Austin, Texas for 5 years.  I also spent a year at GIT in Los Angeles (o...

- by New Deal democrat In line with Bonddad's last post, this morning's poor industrial production report (blue)adds to the evid...

From the latest ISM report: "Internal indicators and feedback from sales channels are indicating a slowdown in demand for capital eq...

The SPYs have had two strong rallies this month.  The first occurred on the 6th, after which prices consolidated for a week.  Then yester...

German high court backs ESM (BB) Indian IP up .1% (BB) South Korean Joblessness at 3.1% (BB) Nine deep thoughts on the latest WaPo poll ...

- By New Deal democrat Hot on the heals of Friday's miserably positive employment report, two more jobs measures are also raisng re...

Every month, t he ECB releases a report on the overall EU economy.   In looking through the latest report, there are three charts that reall...

Over the last week, we've had two important developments in Europe.  First, the ECB announced a bond-buying program.  This has long been...

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On Monday, I noted that the euro had broken out of a key weekly channel.  Today, I wanted to focus on the dollar, where the exact opposite ...

The Brazilian market bottomed at the end of May and has been meandering higher ever since.  However, this is not a strong rally; prices ...

Obama 49, Romney 48 in poll (WaPo)   Senate control up for grabs (NYT)   Tough for Romney to keep the best of health care law while repea...

From the Washington Post: The growing middle class that is fast becoming Mexico’s majority is buying more U.S. goods than ever, while tur...

On the weekly chart, the copper ETF traded right about the 42 price level for a three months, while also consolidating in a triangle patt...

With China slowing down, we see the rest of the Asian markets consolidating gains on their long-term charts.  Consider the following: Th...

How climate change effects the power grid (WaPo) Romney agrees to keep key Obamacare provisions (WaPo) Romney qualifies remarks (TPM) ...

The above chart is a weekly chart of the euro.  The chart has been in a downward sloping channel for roughly the last year.  Last week, p...

A little more than three years ago, I wrote a piece titled "the Fits and Starts Expansion" where I wrote the following: First, ...

There's good and bad news in the above charts of the major US averages.  The IWMs show a strong move higher by printing two str...