Economy: Good or Bad?
We’ve been trying to make heads or tails of this economy. Passenger screenings at TSA are way up over last year. Does this look like a bad economy? Well what…
We’ve been trying to make heads or tails of this economy. Passenger screenings at TSA are way up over last year. Does this look like a bad economy? Well what…
The Case-Shiller Home Price index is out at SPGlobal.com and you can review the latest information but we wanted to model a forecast so we created a couple of charts.…
The weekly jobless claims have finally spiked up to 231k and we are wondering if this is the beginning of the next economic downturn phase. From CNBC: Initial filings for…
You may have heard of the “canary in the coalmine” which was a method used by miners deep inside a mine, carrying a canary, to determine if there was toxic…
In trying to understand where the U.S. economy right now, we are hearing the term “stagflation” a great deal but we think this is the wrong word. Let’s start with…
The BLS released their non-farm payroll report and it shows a whopping increase of 336,000 jobs and 3.8% unemployment and this was on the heels of a JOLTS report that…
Investor’s has a great article on reaching ‘peak boomer’ whereby the bulk of the baby boomer generation is now hitting age 65. From Investors.com: According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s…
Both CNBC and the Wall Street Journal have articles highlighting China’s demographic problem and what it means to the global community. From CNBC: China is facing a demographic problem and…
The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation is up for April at 0.4 percent (annualized at 4.7%) despite 500% increase in the Fed funds rate so it would seem more rate…
It’s been an extreme week of near bank failures, JOLTS reports and our updated stock collapse chart comparisons so let’ get started. The Fed raised interest rates by a quarter…