Saturday, September 28, 2013

Weekly Indicators: are consumers voting against Washington idiocy? edition

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 - by New Deal democrat Monthly data reported this past week included August personal income, spending, and savings, all up. Case=Shil...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Weekend Weimar, Beagle and Pit Bull

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Japan Continues To See Inflationary Increase

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While it seems odd to talk about increased inflation as a good economic development, for Japan it is.  For the last 15 years they have been ...

Europe Catching a Bid

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The recent news out of the EU region has been positive.  While it's still to early to say that a positive trend is in place, the news ha...

The economy has almost completely recovered (the people in it, not necessarily so much)

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. - by New Deal democrat This morning's release of personal income and spending completes the monthly reports for the 4 big coinciden...

India Raises Rates 25 BP

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Last week, the new head of the Reserve Bank of India issued his first policy statement, raising rates 25 basis points while reducing some of...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Making Sense of the Durable Goods Numbers

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Over the last few months, the durable goods numbers have printed some very wide results.  Let's look at the data to make sense of what w...

Initial claims last week ex-California computer glitch ~327,000

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- by New Deal democrat Computer issues in California continue to bedevil the weekly initial jobless claims reports. We can make a good...

What Happened to the Perp Walk?

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It used to be that prosecutors were dead set on making someone take the "perp walk."  This occurred when an individual was arreste...

UK Economy Continues To Look Promising

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From the minutes of the latest Central Bank Meeting: The estimate of GDP growth in the second quarter had been revised up a little to 0.7%...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Gas price trend nears its best in a decade

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- by New Deal democrat The secular rise in the price of gasoline from a low of $0.80 in 1999 to $4.25 in 2008, and its continual high p...

In case you were wondering . . .

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- by New Deal democrat As you can see, the blog looks a wee bit different. Here's what happened. In the course of shutting down ...

Employment Burns While Washington Fiddles

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Over the next few weeks/months, we'll be witnessing another round of incredible budget stupidity from Washington.  As we see that, let...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Corporate Bond Market Selling Off With Treasury Market

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Above is a chart of the short (SHY, VCSH), intermediate (VCIT, IEF) and long term (VCLT, TLT) bond ETFs for both the corporate and treasu...

Germany Heading In The Right Direction

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From the latest Markit press release: Output growth accelerated for the fourth month running in September, helped by a further upturn in n...

New Home Sales Stalling Under Higher Rates

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One of the bright spots for the US economy has been a rebounding housing market.  Depressed for the last four years as it worked off the mas...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Comments Are Off Until DAN KENNEDYS LIFESTYLE LIBERATION BLUEPRINT STOPS SPAMMING OUR BLOG

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For the last 24 hours, Dan Kennedy's Lifestyle Liberation Blueprint has been spamming our comments section.  So, until this utterly wo...

Chinese Rebound Continues

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There was a great deal of concern among economists and market participants earlier this year over China, or, more specifically, the then eme...

Oil Is Still At High Levels

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Oil has been trading at high level (over the 102/104 area) for almost two months.  While the chart is telling us that a sell-off is on th...

Economic/Market Analysis: US

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The best news of the week came from the Conference Boards LEI and CEI release: The Conference Board LEI for the U.S. increased in August f...