Saturday, June 20, 2015

Weekly Indicators for June 15 - 19 at XE.com

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators piece is  up at XE.com .  Some of the bad news appears to be abating, while there a new, bot...
Friday, June 19, 2015

International Economic Week in Review

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This is over at XE.com

The Fed vs. Millenials: inflation and the apartment boom

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 - by New Deal democrat Should the Fed raise rates when inflation is being driven exclusively by a necessity, and demand for that neces...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The shallow industrial recession continues - but no signal for general growth

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 - by New Deal democrat Several days ago May industrial production showed another decline.  The consensus  in the commentary was that thi...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Finally, a blowout housing report

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post up at XE.com about his morning's housing report, which was a blowout!  But don't ...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

US Equity and Economic Review For the Week of June 8-12; Yes, the Rally Is Getting Long In the Tooth, Edition

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This is over at XE.com
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Weekly Indicators for June 8 - 12 at XE.com

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Several recent trends in the data were amplified this week.
Friday, June 12, 2015

International Economic Review For the Week of June 8-12; Much Better, Edition

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This is over at XE.com

Patterns of consumer spending: no recession near

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 - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com , looking at two patterns of consumer spending that tend to turn near midcycle.  ...

Actually, the labor market recovery since 2009 has been the best in 25years

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 - by New Deal democrat [UPDATE: After I published this article, I realized that I used an incorrect measure of hours worked, namely, ho...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

The American consumer comes roaring back

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 - by New Deal democrat This morning's retail sales report marks the demise of one of the two weak areas in the US economy. L...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Test photos post

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If you are seeing this, that means that I can circumvent the clusterfk of Apple's IOS 8.3 rendering Picasa inoperable, by using the Blog...

April 2015 JOLTS report: the first sign of an approaching employment peak"-

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- by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com  discussing yesterday's JOLTS report.  Although the number of job openings are...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Pied Piper of Doom is still an idiot, US Tresuury market edition

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 - by New Deal democrat  After a very long hiatus, the Pied Piper of Doom is back, determined to maintain Daily Kos as a laughingstock o...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

US Equity and Economic Review For the Week of June 1-5; Are the Weekly Charts Topping Out? Edition

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This is over at XE.com
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Weekly Indicators for June 1 -5 at XE.com

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com . Unsurprisingly, the big news among high frequency indicators was t...

International Economic Week in Review: A More Positive Tone, Edition

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This is over at XE.com
Friday, June 5, 2015

May jobs report: the score is consumer expansion 1, industrial recession 0

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- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : 280,000 jobs added to the economy U3 unemployment rate up +0.1% to 5.5% With the expansion firmly...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

State sales tax receipts: poor consumer sales still look like an Oil Patch issue

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 - by New Deal democrat In addition to poor industriall production, that appears to be a matter of an overly strong US$, the other part o...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Americans continue to rebuild savings

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  - by New Deal democrat It is a very rare occurrence when I agree with the Washington Post's Robert Samuelson, and disagree with De...