Guess what? The Dismal set overshot again: via WSJ: "The U.S. economy expanded at the slowest pace in two years in the...
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Overlooked in yesterday’s Oil-a-palooza was March’s data on Durable Goods. To say the least, the number stunk the joint up. I...
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More on Oil and China, this time from an interesting NYT’s article from last week: One of the reason’s China’s Oil...
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Its no coincidence that as Oil has reached multi-year highs, Wal-Mart has tumbled to multi-year lows. Thats the dominant impact of...
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Much has been made of the link between the surge in commodity prices in recent years and the explosive growth in Chinese demand. The...
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Fascinating study via Spencer England’s Equity Review: The Yield Curve tends to flip negative whenever Inflation exceeds Unemployment....
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> Barron’s print edition ran with Tuesday’s "Understanding The “Kitchen Sink Economy" Its seems that our...
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Following up on our earlier discussion today of wages and consumer spending is this WSJ column (from earlier this week) on wage growth,...
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> Alan Abelson’s weekly column in Barron’s is one of my regular must reads. While many people complain he is a...
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The US Conf Board of Leading Economic Indicators slid -0.4% in March. The LEI have been soft for some time now, posting a marginal gain...
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