Hey, I thought that the glut of foreclosed homes had driven U.S. home prices down so much that buyers were jumping back into the market?...
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>"Existing-home sales slowed in April, partly because restrictive lending practices hampered home buyers. At the same time, more...
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Is the glass half empty, or half full? I have heard that question posed many times, and never been happy with the standard answer....
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"We find that food and energy prices are not the most volatile components of inflation and that depending on which inflation measure...
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"Below 400k New Claims = No Recession." >One of the latest wrong ideas floating around is that you cannot possibly have a...
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Yesterday, we spilled quite a few pixels discussing the various ways inflation has been impacting the economy. Not only did we see Core...
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Malcolm Gladwell on the challenge of hiring in the modern world. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker...
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How was that for odd? The Core Rate was much higher than the headline — 0.4% versus 0.2%. Why? It has to do with the way seasonal...
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Yesterday, we saw the release of the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI). It was the second consecutive month of a slight rise in the...
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Interesting piece in Business Week on the independent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). They are the official arbiters of...
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