Economic Survey
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Are Home Prices Just Too D@mn!#$ High?
We were surprised to see the sharp drop in the percentage of survey respondents with plans to buy any home…
Confidence Survey Shows Jobs Are Still Relatively Plentiful
The first available monthly indicator of the labor market is the "jobs plentiful" series in the Consumer Confidence…
Game Over For Birth/Death Adjustment?
Some economists claim that recent nonfarm payroll gains are misleadingly strong and are masking the underlying weakness in the labor…
Will Depressed Small Business Owners Depress The Economy?
Stocks marked time today, while bonds rallied after the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released its March survey of…
Short-Term Caution Signs
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 rose to fresh record highs today. That's great. Not so…
The Promised Land
The permabears will have to postpone their imminent recession yet again based on today's batch of US economic…
May's Regional Business Surveys Remained Weak
A federal debt ceiling deal is in the works. The stock market yawned. The bond market rallied. Interest rates fell…
The Economic Week Ahead: May 30-June 2
Now that a debt deal is on the verge of becoming a done deal, the markets can focus on economic…
A Dish of Mixed Nuts
Today's economic indicators show that the labor market remains tight, while manufacturing activity remains weak. That mix supports…
Tale Of Two Surveys Of Purchasing Managers
Today's NM-PMI for February was happier than the month's M-PMI released on Wednesday. On balance, they…
The Economic Week Ahead, Feb. 13-17
Financial markets are likely to be action packed this week because the economic calendar is jampacked with key economic indicators…