Saturday, November 13, 2021

Weekly Indicators for November 8 - 12 at Seeking Alpha

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    - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha . Surprisingly, given the big increase in the CPI (that is likel...
Friday, November 12, 2021

September JOLTS report: slow progress towards a new equilibrium

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   - by New Deal democrat This morning’s JOLTS report covers September, at the beginning of which the Delta wave peaked and then gradually ...

Coronavirus dashboard for November 12: regional variations and the winter wave

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   - by New Deal democrat There’s a glitch in 91-Divoc collecting Johns Hopkins data, so the State by State totals have not been updated for...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Why Yesterday’s CPI report was so important

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   - by New Deal democrat As promised, here is a link to my article, Why Yesterday’s CPI Report was such a Big Deal , over at Seeking Alpha....

Programming note on yesterday’s inflation report

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   - by New Deal democrat As noted yesterday, I wrote an extensive post on why the consumer inflation report was such a Big Deal for the eco...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Nobody is (still) getting laid off

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   - by New Deal democrat [Note: This morning’s consumer inflation report was very important, and not in a good way. So I plan on doing a mo...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Producer price inflation: it’s a gas!

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 - by New Deal democrat I normally do not pay much attention to producer prices, but with the huge increase in spending earlier this year an...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

‘Brutus,’ the anti-federalist who presciently foresaw the Imperial Supreme Court

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 - by New Deal democrat As you may recall, for the past several years I have done a great deal of historical reading about Republics; how th...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Weekly Indicators for October 1 - 5 at Seeking Alpha

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    - by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. As I point out from time to time, one of the biggest values in ...
Friday, November 5, 2021

October jobs report: a very strong report putting to rest questions about the strength of the expansion

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   - by New Deal democrat In the light of the last two month’s relatively “poor” jobs readings, an important question was what was going to ...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Three reasons for the decline in Biden’s (and Democrats’) popularity

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    - by New Deal democrat Dan Guild follows presidential approval closely, and uses it to model election outcomes, including State level as...

Layoffs, wages, and labor costs: three measures of the labor Boom

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   - by New Deal democrat Initial claims declined another 14,000 this week to 269,000, and the 4 week average declined 15,000 to 284,750, b...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

October vehicle sales give sharply mixed message about the economy going forward

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   - by New Deal democrat Ok, FRED is back up and running, so here is my economic post of the day. Vehicle sales used to be reported monthly...

About last night

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   - by New Deal democrat I was going to write about motor vehicle sales (not good), but FRED is down for maintenance. I might put somethin...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Coronavirus dashboard for November 2: the winter wave has begun

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   - by New Deal democrat The Delta decline is probably over. Nationwide US cases are up 4000/day from one week ago. The Northeast and South...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Manufacturing remained strong in October, while construction spending declined in September (but not yet at recessionary levels)

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    - by New Deal democrat As usual, we started out the month with the forward-looking ISM manufacturing report for October, as well as cons...