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  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . The thesis that trouble in the brick and mortar retail sector mea...

     Thanks to a very busy work schedule, I've had less time to monitor and write about the "analysts" at Hot Air.  But, now ...

- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : +98,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate down 0.2% from 4.7% to 4.5% U6 underemployment rate down ...

 - by New Deal democrat There finally was enough of a soft patch in the data for the Doomers to raise their heads out of the peepholes.  ...

  - by New Deal democrat First of all, sorry for the light posting this week.  I've had some urgent business I need to attend to irl....

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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...