Gallup Economic Confidence Index Plunges
It’ll be a week until we get another read on retail sales and it’s important to remember that, oftentimes, Americans do and say two very...
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A Look at Credit Ratings Around the World
As always, the Economist’s Daily Chart feature provides some interesting data to study, today’s offering being an interactive table of sovereign credit ratings by the...
John Hussman Is Not Optimistic
"The U.S. economy appears suspended at the boundary between tepid growth and recession, requiring a trillion-dollar federal deficit and unprecedented monetary easing simply to maintain...
The Obvious Solution to the Nation’s Sequester Problem
After reading in the Fed meeting minutes the other day that some members of the central bank are having second thoughts about their ongoing $85...
Existing Home Sales Rise, Inventory Falls to 13-Year Low
The NAR (National Association of Realtors) reported that sales of existing homes were little changed last month, up 0.4 percent from a downwardly revised annual...
Housing Starts Fall from Five-Year High
The Commerce Department reported(.pdf) that new home construction continues to track higher, but that housing starts fell sharply from a five-year high the month prior,...
America’s Farmland Bubble
This Kansas City Federal Reserve report(.pdf) on credit conditions in the Midwest agriculture sector made the rounds...st week as it offered more confirmation that the...
What to Make of Swiss Divisible Gold Bars
Here’s an interesting new form of gold bullion called a CombiBar from Valcambi, a company in Switzerland that clearly thinks there might be a need...
Historical U.S. Gold Reserves
From the historical data in the World Gold Council’s archives comes the chart below depicting the dramatic rise and fall of U.S. gold reserves before...
Gas Prices Continue to Rise, Sapping Consumer Confidence?
It should be interesting to see what today’s Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index comes in at in an hour or so since, in this...