Follow the trend to understand Friday's jobs data, which showed 339,000 jobs were created in May while the unemployment rate increased.
Payrolls Soar By 339K, Blowing Away Highest Estimate, Even As People Employed Tumble By 310K Sending Unemployment Rate Higher With consensus...
Could monetary conditions be supportive of the "soft landing" scenario? While the "recession" versus "no recession" debate rages, there is a precedent...
Fed Hawkishness Will Be Kept At Bay By China's Angst Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, China’s faltering recovery will...
Stalling China Recovery Deals A Blow To European Stocks By Michael Msika, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist With alarm bells...
- by New Deal democratI’m making an important addition to my weekly blurb on jobless claims this week: I’m showing how it compares with and leads...
Overview: The market was gearing up for a June Fed hike and officials and this helped lift the greenback. However, the Fed Governor Jefferson, nominated...
Everyone should thank their lucky stars we have Chairman Jerome Powell to steer our economy. He’s done an incredible job navigating these turbulent times,...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an initial decrease in birth rates in the U.S. followed by a partially offsetting rebound, as we documented in our December...
Higher Unemployment Won't Stop Wages From Rising Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The net result of these dynamics is...
In this post we summarize the main results of our contribution to a recent e-book, "The Making of the European Monetary Union: 30 years since the...
Markets in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and North Carolina are the strongest for sellers, while the place to buy might be in the West and the Rust...
The White House and House Republicans agreed to a deal just days before the US is expected to default.
The deal would raise the ceiling for two years, cap some federal spending and impose new work requirements on certain federal benefits. It still needs...
For weekend reading, Gary Alexander, senior writer at Navellier & Associates, offers the following commentary: Come mothers and fathers throughout...
June is a pivotal month. The US debt-ceiling political drama cast a pall over sentiment even if it did not prevent the dollar from rallying or the...
Many people are wondering if the higher interest rates set by the Federal Reserve are slowing inflation. For nine months ... Read more
Fed swaps earlier priced in a quarter-point rate rise by July FOMC Meeting 10-year Treasury yield rises 4.4 bps to 3.784% Nvidia delivers biggest one-day...
We continue our series on military service and consider veterans’ earnings and labor market outcomes. We find that veterans earn more than 12 percent...
https://bondvigilantes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1-deflation-tsunami-1-1024x576.pngInflation is one of the great economic debates and often leaves...
In part one of this blog post series, we found that the Class of 2023 is graduating into an exceptionally strong labor market, with the lowest...
* Debt-limit talks in Washington stumble as time runs out for deal * US economy in ‘much better shape’ vs. gloomy forecasts: BlackRock’s bond chief...
Not only is degrowth is not the same as negative GDP growth, it is actually better for the planet.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has recently reported on various leading indicators that contribute to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA)...
Heidi Learner, head of innovation with Altus Labs, spoke to 800+ NAIOP National Forums members during their annual meeting in Boston about the outlook...
Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship And The Necessity For Spending Reforms By Adam Andrzejewski, author of Open the Books substack, Testimony by:...
Four Reasons Why Chicago Should Dump Its 'Sanctuary City' Status Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Many Chicagoans...
The ONS has released employment and wage data for the year to January-March. Weakness Creeps Into Jobs Data The one ... Read more
Friday May 12 we had the annual Hoover monetary policy conference. Hoover twitter stream here. Conference webpage and schedule here. As before, the talks,...
We recently published a blog post I wrote entitled, ‘Why I think tech and small caps could rally this year’. In that post I explained the...