The Bonddad Blog

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at Seeking Alpha . The last long leading indicator that I was concerned about,...

 - by New Deal democrat HEADLINES :  +128,000 jobs added (+148,000 ex-Census) U3 unemployment rate up +0.1% from 3.5% to 3.6% U6 un...

 - by New Deal democrat ..... aaaaand, I’m back. Did you miss me? Here is the essence of my view of the economy right now: 1. The pr...

- by New Deal democrat Here’s a picture of what I’ve been doing: Generic picture of water and land ... except, if you look careful...

 - by New Deal democrat I’ve been busy checking off a few items on the bucket list. I’ll be back at work in a couple of days. I’ll po...

  - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at Seeking Alpha . The producer side of the economy generally, and manufactur...

 - by New Deal democrat Yesterday I wrote that durable goods orders showed that manufacturing is still weak. The contrary side of the ec...

 - by New Deal democra t I’m still traveling this morning, but for now let me just note that this morning’s durable goods orders showed a...

 - by New Deal democrat I normally don’t bother with existing home sales, since it is the least economically important of housing data, b...

 - by New Deal democrat Over 10 years ago I found a good, quick-and-dirty way of looking at the Index of Leading Indicators. It only matt...

  - by New Deal democrat For future reference, links to my four posts on the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic Part 1: Structure an...

 - by New Deal democrat As we have seen, the Roman Republic was brought down by an escalating series of acts of political violence, fro...

  - by New Deal democrat “The Republic is nothing, a mere name without body or form.” - Julius Caesar This is part 3 of my four par...

 - by New Deal democrat This is part 2 of my four part look at the Roman Republic and subsequent Empire. In part 1, I described the struc...

 - by New Deal democrat “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny,” by Edward J. Watts “The Storm Before the Storm,: The Beginning ...

 - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is  up at Seeking Alpha . Although the economy, especially in the producer sector, is q...

 - by New Deal democrat For the last 10 months, readers of the financial press have been bombarded with stories about the inverted yield ...

 - b y New Deal democrat So, after a nearly empty week until now, there were four economic reports this morning. Three of them were good....

  - by New Deal democrat Retail sales are one of my favorite indicators, because in real terms they can tell us so much about the presen...

 - by New Deal democrat Way back in 2007, I wrote an article at Daily Kos entitled “Are hard times near? The great decline in interest ra...