Regarding yesterday’s New Home Starts, an emailer writes: You used to discuss the Commerce Dept.’s standard statistical...
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Does this look like a bottom to you ? chart courtesy of Barron’s Econoday > The Commerce Department released the Housing Starts...
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The BLS reported that prices rose modestly in April, below consensus expectations. The usually Bullish Michael T. Darda of MKM Partners...
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I stumbled across a data point yesterday that was quite fascinating: The percentage of food and health care in the Consumer Price Index....
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My pal James Pethokoukis is a 2002 Jeopardy! champion — so I don’t lightly challenge his knowledge of either the esoteric...
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I’ve been complaining for quite some time that the understated Inflation overstates GDP. John Williams of ShadowStats notes the...
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Yesterday morning, we discussed a few fun Fannie Mae (FNM) factoids from their recent quarter and conference call. Part of that...
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While I am having lunch, check out this very cool chart porn on Productivity via Brian Jacobs: click for ginormous graphic
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After the Advanced GDP came out last week at +0.6%, I was surprised to read a variety of commentary about the economy that was factually...
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Great piece by Martin Feldstein in the FT: Misleading growth statistics give false comfort Bloomberg: "Harvard University...
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