Commerce Department reported that April new-home sales jumped an unexpected 16.2% — the biggest monthly gain in 14 years. The year...
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We have long stated that the official BLS data was a rather artificially optimistic assessment of the actual employment picture. Our...
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I am gearing up for the post-Soprano, post Entourage summer months. One of the items that will be filling the HBO void is Not Just the...
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Well, no. He didn’t really say that. But given his history as a serial bubble blower here — and his superlative track...
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NYSE Short Selling rose to yet another high. For the monthly period ended May 15, short interest on the NYSE rose 7% from mid-April....
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Today’s WSJ has a very bullish, front page article on the current Bull market lasting another decade or so. In the past, that has...
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Music company EMI Group PLC has agreed to a 2.4 billion pound ($4.7 billion) takeover by a private equity group Terra Firma Capital...
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CPI? OER? Too heavy! Too much analysis! My brain hurts! OK, stop complaining. I hear you (and read all your whiny, complaining emails)....
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"Inflation is the cruelest tax." I was trying to confirm the first person who actually wrote or said that (as opposed to...
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Can CPI go lower, regardless of what inflation actually does? Yes, according to Barclay’s Capital Research (whic we cited earlier)....
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