Saturday, October 12, 2013

Weekly Indicators at XE.com: you're gonna want to read this

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 - by New Deal democrat Weekly Indicators has been published at XE.com . Click on the link and you'll go directly to the article....
Friday, October 11, 2013

Weekend Weimar, Beagle and Pit Bull

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See you Monday

Yes, Virginia, There is an Economic Cost to the Shutdown. And It's Bad

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From Bloomberg: Claims for U.S. jobless benefits jumped last week to the highest level in six months, providing the first statistical war...

Yes the Shutdown Will Slow the Economy

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From the Washington Post:  Beginning next week, thousands of home buyers will be unable to get approvals for their mortgages because of t...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Is the Oil choke collar beginning to give way?

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- by New Deal democrat New post up at XE.com at the link.

Two New XE Articles

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NDD talks about the oil choke collar and I explain the rupees recent drop.

Why even debating breaching the debt ceiling is a Big F*g Deal: a nonpartisan note

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- by New Deal democrat Regardless of your politics, you should care very much not just whether or not we actually fail to increase the ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

SPYs At Critical Support

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Yesterday, the market sold off on sharp volume, falling through short-term support.  Added together with the weakening technical position...

Talk of Debt Default Already Hitting Financial Markets

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From the FT: Investors such as Fidelity and other money funds are already voting with their feet. Yields for bills that mature in Octobe...

Euro Area Continues to Show Improvement

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This is available over at XE.com.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Actually, Federal Spending is Flat and The Deficit is Decreasing

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The chart above is from Dr. Eds blog and shows that total federal spending has been flat for the last few years while federal receipts a...

If We Sell-Off, Is Washington to Blame?

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Over at the Armo trader we see the following point about the SPY chart: Below is a weekly chart of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF. As you see, ...

Review of Last Week's US Economic News

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This is over at XE.com.
Monday, October 7, 2013

To prevent a debt default, it's time for a *REAL* government shutdown

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- by New Deal democrat Like a runaway train, the US is hurtling towards a debt default, only about 10 days away, with no signs that the...

Food Inflation Not An Issue

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Grains (JJG, top chart, corn, wheat and soy) and softs (JJS, bottom chart, sugar, and coffee) are both in a long-term downward trend. ...

Market Analysis: US

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The analysis of last week's US economic events will be available at XE.com later today. Let's place the SPYs overall actions in...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Weekly Indicators: unaffected by government shutdown, but increasing concern about 2014 edition

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 - by New Deal democrat As we all know, the government shutdown prevented the reporting of nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate. ...
Friday, October 4, 2013

A very special September jobs report directly from the BLS computer

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- by New Deal democrat [Explanatory note: I tried to get in to the BLS's HAL 9000 computer to get the employment report for every...

Is France Turning the Corner?

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For the first part of the this year I was bearish on France ( see here ).  But over the last few months we've seen the economic numbers ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Wherein the mask doesn't just slip, it falls onto the floor with a loud, reverberating clatter

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. - by New Deal democrat I love posting highly polarizing diaries at times like this. ...there have been times (many, many times) in m...