The Bonddad Blog

  - by New Deal democrat In the rear view mirror, 2nd Quarter GDP was revised down to a miserable +1.3% annualised, and households dele...

- by New Deal democrat This is the time of week when Bonddad normally posts photos of his doggies. Since at the moment he is medicate...

- by New Deal democrat One year ago this Sunday Lakshman Achuthan of ECRI appeared on WSJ television and announced that the US was ...

- by New Deal democrat Yesterday I said it appeared likely that manufacturing - but not necessarily the economy as a whole - had slipp...

- by New Deal democrat There's no getting arouind the ugly durable goods numbers this morning, shown below in blue, and "core...

- by New Deal democrat A few months ago, Karl Smith of Modeled Behavior showed that there has been a stark bifurcation in the recove...

- by New Deal democrat Last month I wrote that It isn't just Case Shiller: almost every house price index has bottomed , spec...

- by New Deal democrat The NBER defines a recession as a pronounced downturn in production, sales, employment, and income. Although th...

Swiss national bank's bond buying lowers core yields (FT) Gold hits euro record high (FT) EU junk bond prices start to sag (FT) Econ...

- by New Deal democrat Hi. allow me to introduce myself. I used to blog here.... Well, at least it seems that way. It's been a...

While we usually try to steer clear of political discussion here ("just the facts,  Mam"), it's hard to completely avoid what ...

Today, let's start with oil, taking a look at the charts along multiple time frames. On the monthly chart, we see the spike to over...

Romney, GOP stuck in old America (Politico) 60 Minutes interviews with current candidates (CBS) Romney won't lower taxes (BB) Marki...

Consider the following from the Conference Board's latest LEI press release: Note that the series have been stuck at a reading of...

All of the major averages have broken through resistance established at the end of the summer and all consolidated gains last week....

- by New Deal democrat On of my very favorite reads on the entire internet is Prof. Brad DeLong's continuing series, Liveblogging ...

  - by New Deal democrat The big monthly news this week was August's LEI, which declined -0.1. This index is only up 0.1 for the l...

NDD will be here tomorrow with the weekly numbers; I'll be back on Monday.  Until then...

NDD and I have written pretty extensively about the housing market and how both of us think it's one of the possible bright spots for th...

On the SPYs daily chart (bottom chart) we see that prices have consolidated in a downward sloping pennant pattern, moving into the 10 ...