Today I’ll dig a little deeper into the new home sales data and related data. I want to help you see how the media spins the…
There’s so much great data in the Commerce Department’s monthly new home sales report. It’s always useful to parse it for all the tasty morsels…
House prices comprise the most important measure of inflation that is ignored by the Fed and mainstream economists. It’s not included in the CPI or PCE. Instead,…
The headline CPI numbers are finally starting to hit or exceed the Fed’s target, coming in at a seasonally finagled rate of +0.2% for both…
On Fine Business Radio, Lee Adler explains to Lindsay Williams why a rigged US market will benefit from ECB and BoJ money printing and negative rates…
The NAR released it May report on sales of existing housing–what it calls “Pending Home Sales.” The report covers actual sales contracts reached during the previous month.…
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…
Click here for an update of this report. A falling percentage of American households can afford to buy houses as prices rise and incomes fail to keep pace.…
If the US economy is growing, then why are industrial production and electric power generation both on downward paths? The Fed’s Industrial Production Indexes are…
This chart shows how much the BLS suppresses rent inflation in its CPI measure. It’s a major tool the government uses to suppress CPI. Click here to view…