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…
paid Housing Market • 2 min read Upside Surprises The economy isn't landing; it's flying high. Following better-than-expected July reports for housing starts and industrial…
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 Housing Market • 2 min read Rolling Expansion? What happens after a rolling recession? Perhaps a rolling expansion as the economic sectors that fell into a recession recover.…
public Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: June 20-23 It's a short and light week for economic data. We'll be focusing on May's…
paid Washington • 2 min read Progress In Debt Ceiling Talks Lifts Stock Prices Stock prices are up this morning on news that both the Democrats and the Republicans want to get a deal…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: May 15-19 The week ahead is jampacked with coincident and leading economic indicators. The most up-to-the-minute ones will be May 12 mortgage…
public Fed • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: March 20-24 The FOMC always seems to take center stage in the financial markets these days, and will certainly do so on…
paid US Economy • 2 min read More Soft Landing Stats No boom, no bust. That describes yesterday's flash estimates for February's M-PMI and NM-PMI released by…