paid Housing Market • 2 min read 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…
paid Employment • 2 min read 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…
paid Labor Market • 2 min read 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…
paid Economic Survey • 2 min read 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…
paid Technicals • 2 min read Short-Term Caution Signs The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 rose to fresh record highs today. That's great. Not so…
paid Economic Survey • 2 min read The Promised Land The permabears will have to postpone their imminent recession yet again based on today's batch of US economic…
paid Recession • 1 min read 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…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read 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…
paid Economic Survey • 1 min read A Dish of Mixed Nuts Today's economic indicators show that the labor market remains tight, while manufacturing activity remains weak. That mix supports…
paid Economic Survey • 2 min read 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…
paid Economic Calendar • 2 min read 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…
paid US Economy • 1 min read Surveys Say NY & Philly Manufacturing Weak Stock prices tanked yesterday following reports showing sharp declines in December's retail sales and industrial production. As a…