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…
paid US Economy • 1 min read Less Inflation & Growth In Three Regional Surveys We now have three business surveys for January conducted by the NY, Philly, and Richmond Fed district banks. Collectively, they…
paid US Economy • 1 min read Surveys Say NY & Philly Manufacturing Weak Stock prices tanked yesterday following reports showing sharp declines in December's retail sales and industrial production. As a…
paid US Economy • 2 min read A Bowl of Mixed Nuts Today's batch of economic indicators was mixed, showing that the manufacturing economy remains weak, while the labor market…
members Money • 2 min read Running Out of Money? Monetarists seem to be making a comeback, and they are sounding the alarm that the recent weakness in the M2…
paid US Economy • 2 min read Loose Lips Sink Bonds & Stocks The members of the FOMC ("Federal Open Mouth Committee") continue to sink prices in the fixed-income markets. The…
paid Consumer • 1 min read Consumers Are Still Consuming So far, consumers haven’t read the recession memo. They are spending freely, according to MasterCard SpendingPulse, which found that…
public US Economy • 1 min read No Recession In Services Following today's release of September's nonmanufacturing purchasing managers index (NM-PMI), the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow…
public US Economy • 1 min read Slow Moving Economy August's industrial production and inflation-adjusted retail sales reports today show that the US economy is growing, but just…
public Inflation • 1 min read CPI Tends To Overstate Inflation Relative To PCED August's CPI unnerved the stock market because its core inflation rate was higher than expected. August's…
paid Inflation • 1 min read Inflation Shocks The Markets August's CPI report shocked the financial markets. It was widely expected to confirm that inflation peaked around June…
public Economic Survey • 1 min read The Economic Week Ahead, September 12-16 It's another action packed week ahead. On the inflation front, we are expecting that, on Monday, the FRB-NY…