The Coming Of The Police State In America Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The National Guard and the State Police are now...
Jobless claims show an expanding economy. We will only be in a recession once jobless claims exceed 323,000 on a four-week moving average.
Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In History: Record 1.2 Million Immigrant Jobs Added In One Month Last month we though that the January...
Inside The Most Ridiculous Jobs Report In Recent History: Record 1.2 Million Immigrant Jobs Added In One Month Last month we though that the...
We wrote this four-part inflation series in response to the graph below, implying that prices are on the same inflation roller coaster ride as the 1970s....
In September 2021, I discussed how the markets had set its sights on the S&P 500 index hitting 5000. To wit. "Yes, the rally off the...
The cost of housing remains a hot-button topic with both Millennials and Gen-Z. Plenty of articles and commentaries address the concern of supply and affordability,...
The Issue: By many objective measures, the performance of the U.S. economy in 2023 was outstanding. But until recently, there has been a disconnect between...
The New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data released the Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the fourth quarter of 2023 this morning....
The topics covered on Liberty Street Economics in 2023 hit many themes, reflecting the range of research interests of the more than sixty staff economists...
Shortly after the recovery from the pandemic recession began, the U.S. economy entered a period of high inflation as surging demand, severe supply disruptions,...
Wealth is unevenly distributed across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. In this first post in a two-part series on wealth inequality, we use...
Following our post on racial and ethnic wealth gaps, here we turn to the distribution of wealth across age groups, focusing on how the picture has...
- by New Deal democratLet’s take a look at two the big short leading and coincident indicators that were reported yesterday, respectively real retail...
Wage growth has moderated notably following its post-pandemic surge, but it remains strong compared to the wage growth prevailing during the low-inflation...
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy experienced a swift recovery accompanied by a sharp rise in inflation. Inflation has been gradually...
Peter Coy used his column yesterday to beg President Biden not to use the term “greedflation” to explain the runup in inflation since the pandemic....
A new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line, has hit...
Tech stocks are back in the driver's seat as markets look to another round of the Fed chairman's comments and a jobs report to extend recent...
These Are The 5 Charts The FDIC Does Not Want You Paying Attention To Washington's "Problem Bank List" rose again last quarter, capping off...
Europe Is Alarmed Enough To Begin Wargaming A Food Crisis Governments of the European Union are engaged in wargames which simulate and foresee...
How sensitive are economic sentiments as measured by the University of Michigan survey, depending upon party affiliation? Apparently, over the period of...
Liquidity Problems Are Closer Than You Think Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In 2019, the Fed cut interest rates...
Powell To Face Pressure On Rates From Democrats, Bank Rules From Republicans Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Fed Chair Jerome...
When Complex Systems Collide Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, At some point, systems flip from being complicated, which...
What's Next When Policy Makers Can No Longer Hide Their Sins? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, It’s almost comical to...
Rarely are officials able to achieve the proverbial economic soft-landing when higher interest rates help cool price pressures without triggering a significant...
Investors Finding It Increasingly Pointless To Be Bearish By Jan-Patrick Barnert and Michael Msika Investors are finding it increasingly...
Overview: The dollar is mixed as the market awaits the US personal consumption expenditure deflator, which is the measure of inflation the Fed targets....
Overview: A less hawkish Reserve Bank of New Zealand and a slightly softer than expected January CPI from Australia appears to have sparked a broad US...