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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com .  Aside from more mixed long leading indicators, there has been this ...

 - by New Deal democrat This morning's release of Q4 2017 GDP was in line with estimates, rising 2.7% on a preliminary basis.  As us...

  - by New Deal democrat With the exception of rental vacancies and pricing, which should be released next Tuesday, with the morning'...

 - by New Deal democrat First of all, sorry for the light posting this week.  There's not much news until tomorrow and Friday, a...

 - by New Deal democrat In the last couple of weeks, long term interest rates have moved significantly higher.  As of yesterday, the ...

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . The new 40 year low in jobless claims was overshadowed by ...

  - by New Deal democrat Between 1931 and the mid-1950s, the yield curve never inverted, and yet there were 5 recessions (1938, 1945...

 - by New Deal democrat I'll do a more detailed analysis next week, once new home sales are reported, but for now a quick synopsis a...

 - by New Deal democrat Whether due to a bounce from hurricane interruptions, or some other reasons, both real retail sales and industria...

 - by New Deal democrat On this Martin Luther King Day, let's take a look at minority unemployment. This got a little attention ear...

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . This week a lot of the data was affected by holiday seasonality, b...

  - by New Deal democrat Now that we have the report on consumer prices for December, let's take a look at what happened with re...

 - by New Deal democrat In yesterday's post, I pointed out that, in the JOLTS data, hiring leads firing. A more frequent and timely...

 -  by New Deal democrat I'm changing my presentation of JOLTS data somewhat compared with the last year or two.  At this point I...

 - by New Deal democrat For the last several years, I have tried to identify several graphs that most bear watching over the ensuing 12 ...

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 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . There was a very positive start to 2018. Sorry about the late p...

- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : +143,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1% U6 underemployment rate rose  +0.1% fr...