The Bonddad Blog

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Harvey and Irma are going to wreak havoc with some of the numbes.

 - by New Deal democrat We can divide the long leading indicators into producer, consumer, and financial. When we look at just the non-...

 - b y New Deal democrat Initial jobless claims for last week were reported at 298,000 this morning, a jump of over 50,000 from recen...

 - by New Deal democrat I know, real clickbait-y headline, right?  This week is about the lightest for economic data I've ever seen, wit...

 - by New Deal democrat On Labor Day, highlighting the single most important secular problem in the US economy: If there i...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicator column is  up at XE.com . Interest rates have improved, while there are several cracks in ...

  - by New Deal democrat As promised, here is my abbreviated and late take on this morning's employment report. While the addit...

 - by New Deal democrat I will be running an errand when the employment report comes out at 8:30. I will put something up at about 10:...

Since the turn of the Millennium, a torrent of corporate tax cuts has resulted in a trickle of investment growth.  - by New Deal democra...

 - by New Deal democrat I had a long conversation with Hale Stewart this morning. He says he has been incredibly lucky. He, his spousal...

 - by New Deal democrat We  had an interest rate spike late last year similar to the spike in mid-2013.  In 2014 the resulting housing sl...

 - by New Deal democrat First of all, as many of you already know, the M.I.A. proprietor of this here blog, Hale Stewart, resides in th...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . There was no eclipse of the positive tone this week.

-  by New Deal democrat Interest rates are a vital determinant of longer term growth. While the economy has remained on autopilot for the la...

  - by New Deal democrat The stall in the housing market brought about mainly by the post-Presidential election spike in interest rates c...

 - by New Deal democrat Here's what I learned today: the origin of the phrase "being led down the primrose path."  It ...

 - by New Deal democrat The entry of the large Millennial generation into the housing market should have generated more permits and star...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . If you are looking for DOOOOOM, you are looking in the wrong place...

  - by New Deal democrat This morning's report on industrial production confirms that the economy remains on autopilot, and that...

 - by New Deal democrat . Although June got revised higher, July housing permits and starts continue to fail to impress This post is  ...