Saturday, August 18, 2012

Weekly indicators: summer doldrums edition

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  - by New Deal democrat The monthly data for July released last week was almost all quite positive. Retail sales, industrial production,...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Not good enough

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- by New Deal democrat Three years ago I was arguing with Doomers on Daily Kos who thought that, as awful as things were, they were only g...

Stagnating wages are hurting the economy RIGHT NOW

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- by New Deal democrat The global economic weakness that has intensified as this year has progressed has greatly tamped down inflation. ...

Morning Market Analysis

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The entire treasury curve continues its move lower.  All sectors have broken upward sloping tend lines and have bearish MACD formations.  ...

Finland Preparing For Eurozone Breakup

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Erkki Tuomioja, Finland's Foreign Minister, has stated that Finland is preparing for the breakup of the Eurozone. He is quoted in the...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Bonddad Linkfest

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The ugly presidential campaign (WaPo) US industrial production increases (FRB) Malaysian growth picks up (BB) FDI declines in 8 of the last ...

Dude, where's my recession? Housing and Initial jobless claims

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- by New Deal democrat Two piece of economic data released this morning make it considerably harder for bears to argue that we are slippin...

Coincident economic indicators rise

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  - by New Deal democrat We now know the values for July for 3 of the 4 indicators that the NBER uses to mark economic peaks and troughs. No...

Morning Market Analysis: Long-Term Europe Edition

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The weekly Spanish chart shows the market may be making a bottom.  First, notice the depth of the sell-off; prices moved from 40 to about 21...

Liborgate

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Liborgate, despite the brief interlude provided by the chaff from the DFS over Standard Chartered, rumbles on. The BBC reports that seven b...