The Bonddad Blog

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Weakness is several coincident indicators has persisted, and this...

 - by New Deal democrat I'll take a more detailed look next week once new home sales are reported, but for now a quick update on hou...

 - by New Deal democrat According to Blogger, that last post about real retail sales was the 10,000th post on the Bonddad blog. Thanks ...

 - by New Deal democrat I consider real retail sales to be one of the most useful barometers of the health of the consumer economy, inclu...

 - by New Deal democrat This is a follow-up to my post yesterday concerning the decline in real average and aggregate wages. Why should ...

 - by New Deal democrat Consumer prices rose +0.5% in January. That in itself isn't bad news, as they rose an equal +0.5% one year ...

 - by New Deal democrat If you are under about 45 years of age, the odds are that you agree with one statement made by Dick Cheney: tha...

   - by New Deal democrat I wanted to make two comments about what has been happening recently with interest rates, a short term look ...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Even with their 10% correction, stock prices melted up so much in ...

 - by New Deal democrat This is a post I've been meaning to put up all week (after all, this week was going to be very slow on d...

 - by New Deal democrat So the stock market is down 10% as of this writing, which takes us all the way back to --- three months ago!...

 - by New Deal democrat There are times the economy is boring.  Ok, ok, especially boring. To the point where I don't have much to ...

  - by New Deal democrat One reason not to get excited about the last week's stock market swoon is that it isn't being confi...

 -  by New Deal democrat For the last several years, I kept banging away at the fact that "job openings" are soft data that c...

 - by New Deal democrat Me, yesterday at 9 a.m. eastern time: So my best guess is that we will see a climax in panic -- maybe at 9:35 ...

 - by New Deal democrat This is a post aimed at the generally Progressive audience of this blog who followed us over from way back i...

  - by New Deal democrat I wanted to follow up on why I dissented Friday from the near-consensus take that workers finally got a nice ra...

 - by New Deal democrat Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles on their first ever Super Bowl victory! Yes, Philly sports fans have...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at XE.com . Not surprisingly, stocks and bonds took center stage this week.

- by New Deal democrat HEADLINES : +200,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1% U6 underemployment rate rose 0.1% from...