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The headline, fictional, seasonally adjusted (SA) number of initial unemployment claims for last week came in at 267,000. The Wall Street economist crowd consensus guess close to…
So the Fed didn’t raise rates again. And the timing of the rate increase will be data dependent. Ho hum. There’s just one little problem. The…
The Composite Liquidity Indicator has been flat in recent weeks as it skirts the high set in January. Stock prices have mimicked that rangebound pattern…
The mainstream media reported the Case Shiller Index for “May.” I put that in quotes because the data does not represent the actual state of…
U.S. Durable Goods Orders Rise 3.4% in June blared the Wall Street Journal headline this morning. As usual, not only is that not the whole…
The seasonally adjusted (SA) headline number for the monthly-error-times-12-annualized version of new home sales in June was 482,000. Wall Street analysts had guessed that the…
Initial claims for unemployment compensation extended the string of record lows into its 22nd month this week. The mainstream media is reporting this as if the…
The media dutifully reported the NAR’s version of seasonally adjusted, built-in monthly error times 12, annualized, officially recorded, home sales closings in June today. The housing industry…
It has been a few weeks since we took a hard look at initial unemployment claims. There hasn’t been much reason to, since they seem…