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- by New Deal democrat Via Linda Greenhouse of the NY Times : Justice Scalia referred to Section 5 as imposing “these extraordinary p...

 - by New Deal democrat Monthly data released in the past week was dominated by yesterday's payroll report, showing 238,000 jobs ad...

It's that time of the week again.  NDD will be here tomorrow.  I'll be back Monday, until then, enjoy some pictures of the pups eati...

. - by New Deal democrat In its most recent defense, ECRI has sought to downplay the fact that the S&P 500 has been rising to new hig...

From the BLS: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 236,000 in February, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.7 percent, the ...

The above chart has the SPYs in 15 minute intervals since the end of December.  Notice that -- with the exception of the late February se...

The following table is from the latest Taiwan export figures.  It shows the year over year and month over month percentage growth of export...

Let's continue out look at happy chart porn, by showing you some of the various GDP prints from Latin America:  Let's start ...

- by New Deal democrat Weekly initial unemployment claims were reported this morning at 340,000. The 4 week average of new claims fel...

After falling back to the 27 level, the homebuilding ETF has rallied, again reaching the 29.5 price level.  While the underlying technic...

We've had both of the latest ISM numbers released over the last few days.  Let's look only at the anecdotal notes, as these give us ...

So, now that we've established that the traditional causes of a recession probably won't be in play this time around and t hat the ...

Short summary: the SPYs and DIAs each hit a new high yesterday. In addition, the underlying technicals of both are improving. But, three s...