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  - by New Deal democrat The vast majority of all indicators remain very positive.  This post is  up at XE.com

 - by New Deal democrat Corporate profits are a long leading indicator, but they are reported with a long lag. So Q4 2016 profits were f...

 - by New Deal democrat I've seen a few articles recently claiming that low wage growth is because productivity by workers has been ...

 - by New Deal democrat The jobs and wages of average Americans is a major focus of my blogging, since they are a major component of Ame...

 - by New Deal democrat Over the last month or so, in a few posts I have looked at the relationship between labor force participati...

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  - by New Deal democrat First of all, thank the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster for the GOP's Freedom Caucus!!! They have been the b...

  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Among the entire array of indicators, only 3 were negatives this ...

  - by New Deal democrat We now have all of the February housing sales data.  With the exception of the least important series, the trend...

 - by New Deal democrat This is part of a longer post I wanted to write, and if FRED didn't play so poorly with iPad I would put...

 - by New Deal democrat Since the mid-1950s, an inverted yield curve has been perhaps the single most deadly harbinger of a recessio...

 - by New Deal democrat Wage growth for nonsupervisory workers nominally has been stuck in the +2.3% to +2.5% range (or worse) for thre...

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com .  This week it is pretty self-explanatory.  Nearly all short leading...

  - by New Deal democrat We've had a good run of economic news this week. First, in the leading housing sector, both of the most...

 - by New Deal democrat Real retails sales carries a lot of information about various other aspects of the economy, which is why it is my...

 - by New Deal democrat Yesterday I wrote about where we stand in the labor market cycle. I noted that I anticipate that nominal wag...

 - by New Deal democrat In keeping with my big focus on jobs and wages for average Americans, let's take a look at the progressi...

 - by New Deal democrat The unemployment rate, at 4.7%, is generally acknowledged to be decent, although not great.  But what of th...

 - by New Deal democrat How much, if any, of the economy, has been influenced by the Trump/Ryan GOP government in Washington to date...