Taking out the volatility and the noise, July Retail Sales EX auto’s and gasoline station sales fell .1% vs an expected rise of .1%...
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The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future Laurence J. Kotlikoff April 28, 2004 Running Time:...
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Solid Q2 GDP reports from Europe are being seen as old news and are being overshadowed today by weakness in Southern European debt....
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“Something has to happen for this product to be marketable. I just find the whole thing ironic that FHA is providing financing for...
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Some decidedly odd reading today, from (mostly) unusual sources: • The great false choice, stimulus or austerity (FT.com) • Themis...
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The 30 yr bond auction, the part of the curve one can define as the leap of faith maturity in my opinion, was mixed. The yield was a...
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> Bloomberg’s Chart of the Day shows the growth in federal payouts to state and local governments, also known as grants-in-aid,...
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There are two OpEds in today’s New York Times regarding the GSEs. One of them is full of insight and intelligence and rationality....
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Initial Jobless Claims totaled a disappointing 484k, 19k higher than expected and up from 482k last week. To smooth out the seasonal...
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