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Employment Railroad Tracks Formation Epitomizes The Rigged US Economic Data And Markets
The Federal Government is sitting on a record cash hoard for this time of year of $258 billion. It could easily spend an extra $70-80 billion per month in extra discretionary spending to goose economic activity leading up to the election.
NAR Home Sales Data Shows Bubble II Still Boiling
Pending home sales down 3.7%, marking first annual drop in two years.
Here’s Why Housing “Recovery” Not As It Appears
The new home construction industry has seen no growth beyond the historical migratory pattern of US retirees moving toward warmer climes, and even that has been less than robust.
Here’s How Bad US New Home Sales Are
The Census Bureau’s monthly update on new US home sales for May had lots of interesting data buried between the lines. I’ll touch on a few things here, with more to come in a subsequent post.
Fed Sponsored Housing Inflation Makes Buying A House A Dangerous Game
A falling percentage of American households can afford to buy houses as prices rise and incomes fail to keep pace. Yet, the sale prices of existing housing keeps inflating.
Here’s How Industrial Production Exposes The Manipulation And Misrepresentation In Other Government Data
If the US economy is growing, then why are industrial production and electric power generation both on downward paths?
These Two Charts Show Exactly How BLS Suppresses CPI
A problem with the economic establishment’s focus on the CPI to measure “inflation” is that the CPI was never intended to measure “inflation” per se.
A Tale Of Three Retail Sales
The Commerce Department reported that the seasonally adjusted headline number for Retail Sales rose in May by an estimated 0.5%.
Actual Consumer Goods Inflation Vs. BLS And Fed Fantasy
Buried deep in the data tables of the BLS’s Producer Price Index (PPI) for May is an item that reveals the long running fallacies of the CPI and the Fed’s favorite inflation fantasy, the BEA’s Personal Consumption Expenditure price index (PCE).
Another Fed Win - More Jobs For Seniors
Last week I showed you how the Fed has stimulated growing leisure time for millions of Americans. Here’s even more evidence the ever increasing job opportunities for US senior citizens (or at least, more are working, because they have to).
Chart Of The Decade – European Banks Fleeing German Banks Like Rats From A Sinking Ship
Smaller banks often deposit funds in bigger banks. The level of banks’ deposits at other banks is a reflection of their confidence in the system as a whole.
Chart Of The Month Club Shows How Fed Stimulus Actually Worked
In this installment of the Chart of the Month Club, we show the naysayers that it is abundantly clear that the Fed stimulated growing leisure time for millions of Americans not only in total numbers but as a growing percentage of the population.
The State Of The US Housing Bubble
The idea that US housing prices are not in a bubble because they haven’t reached new highs on an inflation adjusted basis has become popular lately. I have a couple of problems with that idea.
Here’s What Excise Tax Collections Tell Us About The U.S. Economy
Gross miscellaneous excise tax collections were down by 2.2% covering the mid month February-March period while gas and aviation fuel tax collections rose...
Ridiculous Economic Policy Chart Of The Week- US Worker Weekly Earnings
Whatever the central bankers and economic policy makers are doing sure is not helping US workers earn bigger paychecks.
Negative Supply And Demand Factors For Bonds Are Just As Bad For Stocks
Last week the Treasury cut back the supply of the 4 week bills to $55 billion from $60 billion. Today they just announced another cut, to $45 billion.
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