The Bonddad Blog

     One of the great benefits of having multiple equity averages is that they almost always confirm each other; for example, when the SPYs...

  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators piece is  up at XE.com . There was more than one very sharp positive.  But a few cracks a...

  - by New Deal democrat Best wishes for a very happy Thanksgiving. Here is a little wonky economic thing we can be thankful for.  Sinc...

  - by New Deal democrat A slew of housing data for September and October was reported yesterday and this morning.  I'll try to have ...

  - by New Deal democrat The BEA's revised release  for 3rd quarter GDP included its calculation of corporate protifts, which rose 1....

... of the oil choke collar.  - by New Deal democrat This is from Gas Buddy  this morning: The price of gas has fallen to $2.82 a ...

  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators piece is  up at XE.com . The conclusion this week was pretty simple and straightforward.

     One of the main points I've made over the last few weeks is the market is expensive by most valuation models.  This is hardly a rev...

  - by New Deal democrat Usually changes in the inflation rate are all about the price of gasoline.  Not in October.  Although gas prices...

  - by New Deal democrat October building permits  came in at the highest level since January 2008. This is unequivocal good news, not ...

  - by New Deal democrat My biggest focus now is what is happening with wages.  I've done quite a bit of number-crunching, but I have...

  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators piece is  up at XE.com . More softness has shown up in coincident indicators.

     One month ago, traders had re-examined their risk calculus and determined that equities were too risky, sending shares lower and the vi...

  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com  on this morning's retail sales number. This is our first indication of ho...

  - by New Deal democrat At the end of the day, the economy ought to operate to bring the most benefit to the most people.  Jobs and wage...

  - by New Deal democrat I've called median household income The most misused statstic  in the econoblogosphere.  People routinely ci...

 - by New Deal democrat A year ago, based on the long leading indicators at the time, I thought the economy would be in the midst of a sl...

  - by New Deal democrat You know the old saw, "it's the economy, stupid!"  Both  Robert Reich  and  Atrios  have boiled l...

  - by New Deal democrat [You know the drill. It's Sunday.  Regular nerdy economic blogging will resume tomorrow.  And be sure to rea...

At the end of last week's column, I make the following observation: So, in conclusion, we're where we were a few weeks ago: a mark...