Biggest Housing Affordability Shock In History Incoming 30 Year fixed mortgage rates have jumped 160bp this year, reaching the highest since...
What Are Supply Shocks? How Do They Affect Prices?When something happens to change the availability of a product or commodity, its price usually increases...
Data on inflation in the US and eurozone continues to surprise to the upside, roiling bond markets. Expectations for US and European monetary policy...
- by New Deal democratNominally personal income rose 0.5%, and spending rose 0.2% in February. That’s the good news. The bad news is the personal...
Futures Flat On Last Day Of Dismal Quarter, Oil Tumbles As Biden Preps Massive SPR Release US equity futures were muted and flat on the last...
Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 0.19%, the S&P 500 fell 0.63%, the Nasdaq… The post US and European equities rally wavers first appeared...
Today we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by Justin-Damien Guénette (Senior Economist), Jongrim Ha (Senior Economist), M. Ayhan...
We have heard much about the supply chain crisis as we recover from the pandemic recession. As the economy has bounced back there have been shortages...
Building design teams face a range of challenges during the design phase, from building higher while avoiding higher costs to reducing the time to occupancy....
Futures Slide, Oil Rises As Ukraine War De-escalation Optimism Fizzles S&P 500 futures edged lower along with European shares, as the...
Ukraine talks send equities up, dollar down I mentioned yesterday that even the slightest hint of any good news emerging from the Ukraine-Russia talks...
Though labor data, like the market it measures, is a lagging macro indicator, there’s some use in closely tracking any changes to it. Financial markets...
If HUD lowers the MIP, it will lower payments and improve the qualification ability of the FHA borrower, having an immediate positive impact. The post...
Normally investors view the future as more uncertain than the present. When that turns on its head, it’s often a bad omen.
GoDaddy and UCLA Anderson Report That Activity Index for Microbusinesses in the U.S. Increased in Fourth Quarter 2021 PR Newswire LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2022 LOS...
China’s Covid-19 lockdown of Shanghai saw oil prices slump overnight, as investors fretted about more sweeping containment measures, which would negatively...
REITs deliver inflation-friendly income and growth as price increases are reaching levels not witnessed since the 1980s. Inflation is reflected by rising...
Bailouts are the root cause of the dysfunction of capitalism and the demise of free markets. Over the last decade, the rise of wealth inequality and...
There's an old Wall Street maxim that the cure for high commodity prices is high commodity prices. As prices rise two things will generally limit the...
"Market Is Crazy" - Federal Reserve Governor Struggles To Find Home In DC Even the monetary wonks who pull the magic money levers and decide...
Stockman: How The C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns And Economic War Authored by David Stockman via The Brownstone Institute, A while back, corporate...
The stock market never works the way we think it should. When the news stories are bleak, we tend to think the stock market must react...
EU Steps Back From Impractical Russia Oil Embargo: Kemp By John Kemp, Senior Market Analyst at Reuters EU leaders have stepped back from...
It was likely inevitable, broad economic commentary sifting into the laundry yet again. With alarming regularity, every couple of years the idea and the...
Are investors correct to be optimistic? Investors appear remarkably calm at the moment given the level of uncertainty we’re facing this year, from inflation...
Rickards: The Newest Case For Gold Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, The stars are aligning for gold. A combination of geopolitical...
The delivery service has been an investor darling with the pandemic but things are changing as the economy reopens.
What Is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)? How Does It Work?The central bank of the United States is known as the Federal Reserve. While it...
What Is Stagflation?Stagflation is a word feared by most central banks. This term refers to a toxic combination of rising unemployment and negative gross...
The delivery service has been an investor darling with the pandemic but things are changing as the economy reopens.