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The Great “American” Divide
by Lance Roberts, Streetalk Live I have often spoken of the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. While asset prices are inflated by continued interventions of monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, boosting Wall Street profits and widening the … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Federal Reserve, GDP, Home Sales and Home Prices, Personal Income and Consumption, Prices - PPI, CPI and More, Retail & Business Sales, Trade Data, stock markets
Tagged consumer confidence, Economy, employment, Federal Reserve, GDP, housing, inflation, Lance Roberts, PPI, recession, recovery, unemployment
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Japan: Exporting Deflation
by John Mauldin, Thoughts from the Frontline The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Government, Japan, Trade Data, macroeconomics, money, money and banking, stock markets
Tagged consumer confidence, Economy, exports, GDP, industrial production, inflation, Japan, John Mauldin, recovery, trade balance
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Bubbly Stock Prices Running Away From Improving Jobless Claims
by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner The trend toward fewer initial unemployment claims continued this week at a pace near the best levels of the past several years. However, spurred on by QE, bubbling stock prices are increasingly ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, stock markets
Tagged Economy, employment, Federal Reserve, GDP, Lee Adler, unemployment
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More Bad News On Dying US Manufacturing
More Bad News On Dying US Manufacturing- Excise Taxes Drop, But Markets Have Reason To Party On by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner [While US tax collections on everything went gangbusters in April, absolutely through the roof, there was one … Continue reading
What A Shock! (Not) Initial Claims Beat Consensus AGAIN! Stock Uptrend is SAFE
by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner First time unemployment claims are currently declining at a 6% annual rate, staying close to the average year to year drop of the past two years. Trickle from the Fed’s massive money printing has … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, stock markets
Tagged Economy, employment, Federal Reserve, GDP, Lee Adler
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Unemployment Claims Maintain Steady Decline
First Time Claims Decline Right On Trend But Wall Street Economists Are Fooled Again by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner First time unemployment claims are currently declining at a 9% annual rate, staying close to the average year to year … Continue reading
Recreating the Asset Bubble: The Fed’s Plan for Economic Recovery
by Joseph Salerno, The Circle Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises Institute While Keynesians continue to sing that lame old song about insufficient aggregate demand stimulus and the horrors of austerity and “market” monetarists prattle on about deficient growth in nominal GDP, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Federal Reserve, stock markets
Tagged Economy, Federal Reserve, inflation, Joseph Salerno, Mises.org, recession, recovery
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Unemployment Claims Improve, But Not Enough for Stock Valuations
Behind The Headlines, Stocks Stay Overbought Against Trend of Unemployment Claims by Lee Adler, Wall Street Examiner This post is excerpted from the permanent Employment Charts page, which includes numerous additional charts and analysis on key employment metrics. The Labor Department reported that … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, stock markets
Tagged Economy, employment, Federal Reserve, Lee Adler, The Wall Street Examiner, unemployment claims
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Macroeconomics and the Financial Cycle: Hamlet without the Prince?
by Claudio Borio, Voxeu.org Since the early 1980s, the financial cycle has re-emerged as a major force driving the macroeconomy, but economic analysis has not caught up. This column argues that macroeconomics without the financial cycle is like Hamlet without … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, macroeconomics, money, stock markets
Tagged business cycle, Claudio Borio, Economy, Federal Reserve, financial cycle, macroeconomics
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Washington Has a Revenue Problem
by Paul Kasriel, The Econtrarian, former Chief Economist, The Northern Trust Company Republicans want to cut government expenditures by “reforming” entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare. In the past, this has been anathema (I have always wanted to use … Continue reading
Q4 2012 Global Risk Analysis from BBVA
by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, TrueEconomics.Blogspot.in Editor’s note: Global Economic Intersection welcomes Dr. Gurdgiev as a guest author. Constantin is an “embedded economist” in the Irish front lines, lecturing at Trinity College, Dublin. He brings us an insider’s view of what … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Eurozone, GDP, macroeconomics, stock markets
Tagged bbva, Constantin Gurdgiev, GDP, global risk
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The Great Debate©: Is the Three-Year Bull Market Over?
by Rick Ackerman and Elliott Morss Rick Ackerman argues the bull run has ended and Elliott Morss gives some analysis he says indicates that is not necessarily so. Ackerman says the final straw for the three-year bull market is the … Continue reading
