Monday, January 16, 2017

Monday Night Futures

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Weekend: • Schedule for Week of Jan 15, 2017 Tuesday: • At 8:30 AM ET,The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for January. Th...

Bank Failures by Year

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In 2016, five FDIC insured banks failed. This was the lowest level since 2007. Most of the great recession / housing bust / financial cri...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Krugman: "Infrastructure Delusions"

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From Professor Krugman: Infrastructure Delusions Ben Bernanke has a longish post about fiscal policy ... Notably, Bernanke, like yours tr...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Schedule for Week of Jan 15th

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The key economic reports this week are Housing Starts, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI). For manufacturing, December industrial producti...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Sacramento Housing in December: Sales down 2%, Active Inventory down 17% YoY

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During the recession, I started following the Sacramento market to look for changes in the mix of houses sold (equity, REOs, and short sales...

Question #1 for 2017: What about fiscal and regulatory policy in 2017?

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Late last year I posted some questions for 2017: Ten Economic Questions for 2017 . I'll try to add some thoughts, and maybe some predict...

Preliminary January Consumer Sentiment at 98.1

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The preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment index for January was at 98.1, down slightly from 98.2 in December. Consumer co...

Retail Sales increased 0.6% in December

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On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.6 percent from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.1 percent from D...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Friday: Retail Sales, PPI, Consumer Sentiment

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From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mixed Bag For Mortgage Rates Amid Market Volatility Mortgage rates were mixed today, depending...

Question #2 for 2017: How much will the economy grow in 2017?

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Late last year I posted some questions for 2017: Ten Economic Questions for 2017 . I'll try to add some thoughts, and maybe some predict...