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.
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,...
Last week, hundreds of NAIOP members from the U.S. and Canada attended NAIOP’s Chapter Leadership and Legislative Retreat (CL&LR) in Washington,...
Take-up at the Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) has halved over the past six months, declining by more than $1 trillion since June 2023. This...
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...
A commonly used measure of market liquidity is market depth, which refers to the quantity of securities market participants are willing to buy or sell...
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...
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,...
Wage growth has moderated notably following its post-pandemic surge, but it remains strong compared to the wage growth prevailing during the low-inflation...
Inflation around the world increased dramatically with the reopening of economies following COVID-19. After reaching a peak of 11 percent in the second...
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....
The morning after “Super Tuesday” in the presidential primaries usually means the stage is set for the upcoming battle between Democratic and Republican...
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...
Evidence And Insights About Gold's Long-Term Uptrend By Jesse Colombo of BullionStar For the past few years, gold has been treading water...
Rarely are officials able to achieve the proverbial economic soft-landing when higher interest rates help cool price pressures without triggering a significant...
Banks Increase Car Loan Rejections Over $1,000 Monthly Payment Concerns As borrowers struggle with making their $1,000...
Investors Finding It Increasingly Pointless To Be Bearish By Jan-Patrick Barnert and Michael Msika Investors are finding it increasingly...
No Asset Class Is Remotely Ready For More Inflation Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Stocks, bonds, commodities and other...
Stock Bull Market Might Just Be Getting Started, But... Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The rally in equities might...
Key Events This Week: All Eyes On Core PCE Amid Deluge Of Fed Speakers After a relatively quiet week on the data front, things start to...
Luongo: Why War Bonds Are Returning In Europe Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, After a mostly peaceful Security Conference...
The US dollar and interest rates appear to be at an inflection point. Much of the past several weeks have been about correcting the overshoot that...
All Of The Elements Are In Place For An Economic Crisis Of Staggering Proportions Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, They...
Justin Ho of Marketplace discussed the implications of the import/export price release Thursday. My view was that pass through into import prices was low...
The markets are still correcting from the overshoot on rates and the dollar that took place in late 2023. The first Fed rate cut has been...