Brian Jacobs sends us these great GDP charts (below), along with this overview: What was Up in the GDP data: • Imports (oil) •...
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Speaking of inflation driven food prices: Here’s a little infoporn for anyone who followed us into Mosaic (MOS) or trade in Potash...
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It doesn’t take too much advanced mathematics to note that by several historical methods for determining whether the economy is...
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I will be out of pocket when GDP gets released, so feel free to go to the official BEA release; use the comments below to...
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Why do I spend as much time as I do debunking inflation, employment and housing data? Today, you will see precisely why. At 8:30am,...
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Declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States worsened in February 2008, with 17 of the 20 now...
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Yesterday’s Gartman Letter (TGL) featured a discussion about withholding tax data (via Trimtabs); I received several questions...
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As we noted earlier: As expected, year-over-year sales and prices continue to get punished. The monthly year-over-year existing...
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Scott Patterson in today’s WSJ writes: “The housing news has been so grim for so long that investors seize on any data that...
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First M3, now . . . Sometimes, when the data is (how shall we say this) less than delightful, politicians pressure bureaucracies to...
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