Saturday, December 20, 2014

Weekly Indicators for December 15 - 19 at XE.com

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 -  by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . The strong dichotomy between international and domestic US data c...

US Equity Market Review For the Week of December 15-19: Searching For the Signal In the Noise

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     I think it's the secret desire of every technical analyst to always find order in the chaos.  We secretly believe that if we look l...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Programming note

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 - by New Deal democrat We're getting down to the end of the year.  Next week we get reports on durable goods, personal income, and t...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

The current economic tale told by real retail sales

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com , describing how real retail sales have value as long leading, coincident, and m...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Americans finally think the economy has turned a corner

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com .  All sorts of gauges of consumer sentiment indicate that, courtesy of cheaper ...

Real aggregate and average wage measures set records in November

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  - by New Deal democrat Courtesy of the huge decline in gas prices, in November consumer prices actually declined by -0.3%. Not only doe...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Oil Choke Collar: 2015 may be the acid test

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 -  by New Deal democrat It's nice to be proven right.  Even more, it's nice to be proven right, for the right reason. Ba...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Gas prices now at 5 year low, nearing Y2K prices in real, wage-adjusted terms

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  - by New Deal democrat This is from GasBuddy : Gas prices have fallen below $2.56 per gallon.  This is the lowest they have been ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

A thought for Sunday: one step from despair

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  - by New Deal democrat [Who said: " I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nat...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Weekly Indicators for December 8 - 12 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com . There is a stark contrast between the more internationally-influen...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

The Oil choke collar breaks: American consumers attack!

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a  post up at XE.com  about the great November retail sales report this morning. A few Doomers have act...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

A look at the first 6 months of 2015

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a  new post up at XE.com  looking at the short leading indicators -- those that tell us the direction of...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

A Deep Question for John "Trillion Dollar Loss" Hinderaker; Isn't Obama A Genius, Too?

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     By way of background, John Hinderaker of the Power Line blog was one of the many conservatives who argued that QE and government stimul...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Weekly Indicators for December 1 - 5 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com .  The global slowdown is having a negative effect on a few things, bu...
Friday, December 5, 2014

November Jobs Report: Blowout on jobs, slight help on wages, participation still dismal

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- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : 321,000 jobs added to the economy U3 unemployment rate unchanged at 5.8% Wages and participation ...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Bonddad's Post-Election Rant

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I'm going through one of my "God both parties really suck shit" phases.  Let's start with the Democrats who got their asse...

October housing: green across the screen for 2015 (at XE.com)

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com , detailing all of the October housing reports, and showing why they are adding ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

That Thanksgiving weekend 11% decline in retail sales ... didn't happen

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  - by New Deal democrat The usual suspects (We're DOOOOMED!!!) have picked up on media reports that allegedly US holiday sales over ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Gas prices vs. average hourly wages

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  - by New Deal democrat One of my goals is to bring you "value added," in other words, rather than simply updating you on the ...

10 year gas chart

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  - by New Deal democrat The below graph comes from  GasBuddy , showing gas prices for the last 10 years: See that upward spike way...