Economic, Market Impact Of Hurricane Katrina
Good round up from Dow Jones: Over a week after making landfall, the broad economic fallout from Hurricane Katrina continues to unfold....
Katrina’s Oil Impact (and $4/gal gas)
click for larger photo The bottom line impact of Katrina: Gasoline at $4. That is the highest I saw petrol at, admittedly on Labor Day...
Housing Market Gives Cooling Sign
I love beating the WSJ: In Friday’s paper, the article Housing Market Gives Cooling Sign covers many of the issues we touched upon...
Chart of the Day: S&P500 following Gasoline Price Surges
Chart of the Day looks at how the stock market has responded to significant increases in gasoline prices over the past 25 years....
Radio Economics
Radio Economics is a very cool site run by Dr. James Reese, an economics professor at the University of South Carolina Upstate. The...
NFP: +169k
A brief comment on today’s NFP report — brief only because a 4 day weekend and the beach is becking me. Non-farm payrolls...
Shopped Out?
> I participated in a discussion in today’s WSJ’s (the free Econoblog) on consumer spending, titled Shopped Out? My...
3 and 2 year yield curve inversion
One of our commenters today noted the 2 and 3 year yield curve inverted Here’s what that looks like, intraday: click for larger...
PMI, GDP stink up the joint
The first revision of GDP growth for the second quarter rose at a (seasonally adjusted) 3.3% annual rate. This was below expectations of...