paid Week Ahead • 3 min read The Economic Week Ahead: November 18-22 The week ahead will provide important updates of housing and manufacturing indicators. The latter should show that economic growth may…
paid Consumer Confidence • 3 min read When American Consumers Are Depressed, They Go Shopping Consumer confidence has been relatively depressed for the past couple of years according to the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) and…
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…
public Unemployment • 3 min read US Economy Still On Bullish Track Stock traders took some profits today. They were probably nervous that Fed Chair Jerome Powell will be less dovish tomorrow…
paid Housing Market • 2 min read Multi-Family Housing Glut? Today's batch of economic indicators was on the weak side. Indeed, the Citigroup Economic Surprise Index fell deeper…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Sunny Economy, Gloomy Dispositions Inflation is the number one economic concern among consumers today. It's also moderated significantly since the summer of…
paid Housing Market • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: May 20 - 24 The week ahead is a light one for economic reports. The focus is mostly on the housing sector, which is…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Not-So-Hot PPI Tuesday's CPI and today's PPI for January were higher than expected. Thursday's retail sales…
public Mortgage Rates • 1 min read Mortgage Rate Rockets Up To 8% The 30-year fixed mortgage rate rocketed up to 8.00% today. It is up from 7.57% on October 12…
paid Fed • 2 min read Talking Heads Talk Stocks Down We were surprised that stock prices didn't drop yesterday along with bond prices. So we aren't…