Saturday, August 30, 2014

Weekly Indicators for August 25 - 29 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . This was one of the most universally positive weeks I have ever s...

International Week In Review: Concerns Mounting For the EU and Japan

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This is over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/international-week-review-concern-mounting-about-eu-and-japan-editi...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Problems Mount For the EU

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This is over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/problems-mount-eu

Comprehensive housing summary for July 2014: prices peak, but lower interest rates are putting an end to the sale slowdown

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Wtih yesterday's report on pending home sales, housing data from the first 7 months of 2014 is in the books.  The data clearly shows t...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

2Q deflated corporate profits, real residential spending add to caution about 2015

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- by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com , discussing several important datapoints from this monring's revisions to sec...

No matter how you measure, wages have stagnated

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- by New Deal democrat We have a variety of economic data series to track wages, including measures of average wages, median wages, and wa...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Draghi's Austerity Defense Rings Hollow

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This is over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/draghis-austerity-defense-rings-hollow

This Week's Germany News Has Been Concerning

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This is over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/weeks-news-germany-not-encouraging
Sunday, August 24, 2014

A thought for Sunday: it is time for Judge Griesa to cease and desist

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  - by New Deal democrat It's Sunday, so I get to stray from posting economic data, and editorialize.... As most readers of t...

International Round-Up

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Over at XE.com International Week in Review International Preview for August 24-29
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Weekly Indicators for August 18 - 22 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com .  Summer is nearing its close and the data allows us to put our feet ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

The consumer fades further: real retail sales per capita for July

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 - by New Deal democrat With the release of the CPI the other day, I can update on of my new favorite economic measures, real retail sal...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Prices of existing houses have probably made an interim peak

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com  on this morning's report on existing home sales for July. We have probabl...

EU Weakness in Two Charts

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This is over at XE.xom
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

We Might As Well Describe the EU's Economy As One in Permanent Recession

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This is over at XE.com http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/we-might-well-describe-eus-economy-one-permanent-recession
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Lower mortgage rates = bottom in housing slowdown has probably passed

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new  post up at XE.com , looking at today's housing permits report. It looks like the decrease in i...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Weekly Indicators for August 11 - 15 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators piece is  up at XE.com . With increased geopolitical and international economic concerns,...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Industrial production and nonfarm payrolls: As Good as It Gets, Millennium edition

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  - by New Deal democrat The index of industrial production has grown at nearly a 5% rate in the past year (blue in the graph below), whi...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

US consumers have been slowly tightening their pursestrings

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com , discussing the state of the American consumer in view of yesterday's flat ...
Saturday, August 9, 2014

Weekly Indicators for August 4 - 8 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator column for this week is  up at XE.com .  Here we are in the dog days of summer, and the numb...