Every month, the St. Louis Fed puts out their monthly book of charts. They cover lots of great stuff: Monetary and Financial Indicators...
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Tales of Inflation’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. PPI — the prices for finished goods, not raw materials —...
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Lots of Bulls — and quite a few commenters here — agree there is a worldwide boom going on. What is fueling it, you may ask?...
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Several readers (and Peter Bookvar) have suggested going to the Cleveland Fed CPI data: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of...
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Via the public section of the WSJ comes this smart parsing of the FOMC statement: Click for full document: Source:Four!Tuesday, Dec. 12,...
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Let’s have a go at some historical charts that might be influencing the FOMC today. Everyone is pretty much expecting a "No...
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Last month, we retired the Over/Under bet. The monthly and annual BLS revisions have conspired to make the initial numbers all but...
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Well, yes, if we believe former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan. Two months ago, he claimed "the housing market had already bottomed,"...
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What are you doing here? Its Thanksgiving Day! Shouldn’t you be downstairs with your families? Man, what kind of a data junkie are...
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