Jobs Data is Irrelevant to Inflation
I hate to disagree with Jim Cramer on anything (outside of Sports), but I believe he is incorrect about the Fed regarding the jobs data....
110k Jobs: Fugly
FUGLY. That’s the only word to describe the stinkeroo released by BLS at 8:30 am. Non-farm payrolls grew by a mere 110,000 last...
Monster Jobs: Military, Mining, Forestry
While we are waiting for the 8:30 Non Farm Payrolls report (guess how I am betting), I thought we might take a look at...
Recession Predictions
Calculated Risk has a nice discussion going on about the difficulty of predicting recessions. One of the more interesting charts is the...
Aussie Home Prices Plunge
We’ve mentioned in the past that US homes are not in a bubble, but are extended as an asset class. We can see a healthy pull back...
Parsing The Fed
Wanna know why the market took a big giant nose dive at approxmiately 2:20 today? The WSJ gives you a hint, in their now monthly parsing...
Household Debt At Historical High
MarketWatch looks at consumer debt and determines that, despite record highs, its not a problem — yet: "Low interest rates...
Chart of the Week: Leading Indicators Trend Downwards
Leading Economic Indicators increased m/m 0.1% in February after negative numbers in January, October, September, August, and July. Since...
Risk is on the Rise
Charlie Minter and Marty Weiner have steadfastly maintained that the reinflation of the past 2 1/2 years has been a classic post bubble...
Is the Consumer’s Ability to Keep Spending in Danger?
We (once again) are pleased to present a chart/commentary via Michael Panzner, author of "The New Laws of the Stock Market...