Saturday, December 12, 2015

Weekly Indicators for December 7 - 11 at XE.com

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com  . Due to the reversal of Thanksgiving Day seasonality, we improved f...
Friday, December 11, 2015

New progressive blog aggregator

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 - by New Deal democrat By way of exploring a big increase in the number of reads of this here blog (YAY!!!), I stumbled upon a new progr...

Good news and bad news on retail sales

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 - by New Deal democrat This morning's retail sales report can be summarized as follows: +.2% headline +.4% ex-auto +.3% ex-gaso...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Single family housing is outperforming multi-unit housing. And that tells us . . .

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 - by New Deal democrat The first thing it tells us, is that I can write a click-bait headline sending you over to my newest post  up at ...

Gas prices finally break below last winter's low

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 - by New Deal democrat Last winter gas prices bottomed at $2.02.  For the last 2 weeks, gas prices flirted with, but never broke th...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

The Future is Bright . . . or perhaps not

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  - by New Deal democrat Bill McBride a/k/a Calculated Risk has reiterated his case for optimism, in "The Future's So Brig...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

BREAKING: ISIS is armed with 1000s of dildos!!!

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 I'm sorry, but that's the first thing that leapt to mind when I saw this photo above a CNN story about ISIS: Yes I do h...

JOLTS, Labor Market Conditions Index continue to show a maturing expansion

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 -  by New Deal democrat Two jobs-related releases yesterday and today continue to show decelerating improvement. Yesterday the ...
Monday, December 7, 2015

A closer look at underemployment

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  - by New Deal democrat One of the big success stories in the labor market this year has been the progressive decrease in the disco...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

US Bond, US Equity and International Week in Review

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These are over at XE.com US Equity US Bond International

If 2016 is 1972 redux, is Hillary Clinton the Democrats' Richard Nixon?

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 - by New Deal democrat BooMan has had  several good article s in the past week analogizing the 2016 election to the Democrats'  dis...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Weekly Indicators for November 30 - December 4 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator post is  up at XE.com  . Appropos of Star Wars, we are all familiar with the Millenium Fal...
Friday, December 4, 2015

November jobs report: truly a mixed report, but enough for the Fed

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- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : 211,000 jobs added to the economy U3 unemployment rate unchanged at 5.0% With the expansion firml...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

November ISM non-manufacturing confirms consumer growth

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 - by New Deal democrat This morning's ISM services report shows some weakening, but still no cause for any immediate concern. ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

The importance of record November vehicle sales

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 - by New Deal democrat The preliminary information shows that vehicle sales for November set yet another post-recession record:  ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

November ISM index confirms intensified deflationary pulse. Can the Fed listen?

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 - by New Deal democrat For the last month in my "Weekly Indicators" column, I have been writing about an intensified defl...
Monday, November 30, 2015

New home sales vs. housing permits - how unusual is the divergeance?

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  - by New Deal democrat I have a new post  up at XE.com  .  The latest housing data from October shows a new high in single family housi...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

International, US Equity and US Bond Market Week in Review

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International Bond Market Equity Market
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Weekly Indicators for November 23 - 27 at XE.com

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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator column is  up at XE.com  .  The intensified deflationary pulse that we have seen in the last...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Corporate profits (through Q3 2015) as leading indicator for quarterly stock prices

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 - by New Deal democrat I have an update  up at XE.com , comparing corporate profits through Q3 with stock prices.