The Bonddad Blog

     For the last 3-4 years, central bank created liquidity has been pumped into the equity markets as investors sought higher returns.  The...

 - by New Deal democrat My weekly indicator post is  up at XE.com .  The data is more mixed than it was during the torrid summer, but I s...

Above is a 4 year weekly chart of the SPYs.  There are 10 corrections -- I've circled 3 in blue (I missed the one that occurred at th...

  - by New Deal democrat I have a new  post up at XE.com . Back in 2011, I wrote that by about now, a combination of alternate fuels, t...

  - by New Deal democrat Regular economic blogging will resume shortly.  But this article  from the Huffington Post  really caught my att...

  - by New Deal democrat I wanted to update three series with the jobs data through September: 1.  The REAL real unemployment and unde...

  - by New Deal democrat Prof. Tim Duy  looks at the relationship between wages and the unemployment rate, and concludes that this time i...

- by New Deal democrat As I noted yesterday,   Jared Bernstein  recently said in a New York Times column: So why not just look at the ...

     Although the uptrend is still in place for both the SPYs and QQQs, weakness in the IWMs, mid-caps and micro-caps is at minimum adding t...

  - by New Deal democrat First, the good news:  the Oil choke collar has disengaged to the point where it is already close to its 2011 an...

  - by New Deal democrat Beginning with Jared Bernstein's piece in the NYTimes this week, there's been another spasm of allegati...

This is over at XE.com. http://community.xe.com/blog/xe-market-analysis/international-week-review-sky-not-falling-calculus-has-changed

- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : 248,000 jobs added to the economy U3 unemployment rate declined from 6.1% to 5.9% Wages and parti...

Ol' TDL (Trillion Dollar Loss) likes to complain about the US employment situation, and, more specifically, blame it on Obama.  While th...

In case you're wondering, John Hinderaker was one of the many people who said the Fed's policies would lead to hyper inflation and s...

Both the SPYs and DIAs have strong, nearly year long trend lines in place.  Current price action has placed prices very near to these ...

  - by New Deal democrat One of the most pronounced issues in the US economy generally is the stagnation of wages since the turn of the M...

    The transports have broken through a year long trend line with a decreasing MACD.  There is also the increase in volume on the se...

  - by New Deal democrat Dr. Ed Yardeni has some clickbait up at his blog titled,  The Wage Stagnation Myth . Yardeni is a highly-regard...

  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com  discussing this month's housing sales and construction releases. There is...