With November’s Non Farm Payroll coming out Friday, we thought a few previews this week might be instructive. One of the...
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You probably saw yesterday’s front page WSJ article, Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy. The real fun was the great set...
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I was chatting with a friend about our earlier post taking apart the New Housing Sales data (Sales drop 23.5%), and he asked —...
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Yesterday morning, Commerce released the New Residential Sales data. Encouragingly, the media has caught on to the monthly nonsense built...
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One of the things people do not understand is a basic truth about the BLS, BEA, Commerce Department, and other government data sources. I...
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Here’s the WSJ lede on GDP: "The U.S. economy soared last summer, growing at a rate much stronger than earlier estimated, but...
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Sales of existing homes fell to a record low in October. What was the largest drop in home prices — ever — wasn’t...
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The Sept S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index fell 4.9% y/o/y, the biggest drop since the data began in 1988 — but in-line with...
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On Friday, Merrill Lynch’s David Rosenberg notes that with "90% of the companies reporting, third-quarter earnings per share...
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Earlier this week, we looked at some data about online financial news sources (via Media Post). For those of you find this sorta stuff...
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