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April 2013 Trade Data Finally Has Some Good News
Written by Steven Hansen Our analysis is better than the headlines. A quick recap to the April 2013 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported up … Continue reading
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March 2013 Trade Data Filled With Ugly Numbers
Written by Steven Hansen Our analysis is worse than the ugly headlines. A quick recap to the March 2013 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported … Continue reading
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February 2013 Trade Data Suggests Economy Is Not Good
Written by Steven Hansen Our analysis is much worse than the headlines. A quick recap to the February 2013 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported … Continue reading
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January 2012 Trade Data Not Great, Not Bad Either
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the January 2013 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported up month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows a growth of … Continue reading
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December 2012 Trade Data Does Not Suggest the Economy is Strengthening
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the December 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows an adjusted contraction … Continue reading
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November 2012 Trade Data Shows Economy Still Expanding
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the November 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported up month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows contraction of 1.4% … Continue reading
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October 2012 Trade Data: Exports Continue Less Good Trend
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the October 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows expansion of 5.3% … Continue reading
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September 2012 Trade Data: Does Not Look Pretty
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the September 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported up month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows contraction of 0.6% … Continue reading
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August 2012 Trade Data: Both Imports & Exports Weak
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the August 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows expansion of 0.4% … Continue reading
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July 2012 Trade Data: Exports Show Worst Growth in 2012
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the July 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows growth of 2.4% … Continue reading
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Exchange Rate Policy and Full Employment
by Warren Mosler, Mosler Economics Editor’s note: This is the manuscript for a presentation made on either 03 December 1997 or 03 December 1999 (see discussion in comments) at a conference hosted by Prof. William Mitchell, University of Newcastle, New … Continue reading
June 2012 Trade Data: The Real Story Is a Major Decline In Oil Imports
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the June 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows decline of 4.8% … Continue reading
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May 2012 Trade Data: Although Imports Fell Slightly, Data Good
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the May 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down slightly month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows decline of … Continue reading
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April 2012 Trade Data: Exports Indicating Slowing Global Economy
Written by Steven Hansen A quick recap to the April 2012 trade data released today: Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and the seasonally adjusted imports were reported down slightly month-over-month. Econintersect analysis shows decline of … Continue reading
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March 2012 Trade Data Still Indicating Expanding Economy
Written by Steven Hansen Import growth has positive implications historically to the economy – and March 2012 trade data (although not as good as February), continued to support projections the economy is expanding moderately. The market expected a trade deficit … Continue reading
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Trade Data for February 2012 Is Good, Export Spike May be Transitory
Written by Steven Hansen Trade balance is an important index to Econintersect which uses the data to validate economic projections. To further our understanding we rebuild the analysis from scratch using unadjusted data. You might have heard pundits throwing out … Continue reading
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Trade Data for January 2012 Shows USA Economy Is Improving
Written by Steven Hansen Data for January 2012 shows the trade balance deficit is continuing to grow according to the U.S. Census seasonal adjustment methodology. The market expected a trade deficit between $48.0 and $48.2 billion and the result came … Continue reading
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Economic Law of Gravity
by Ajay Shah Editor’s note: From Wikipedia, the Newtonian Law of Gravity says the force between two bodies is proportional to product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them. The equation is , where G … Continue reading
Trade Data Shows Economy Improving in December 2011
Data for December 2011 showed the trade balance deficit is again beginning to grow according to the US Census seasonal adjustment methodology. The market expected a trade deficit between $48.0 and $48.2 billion. In perspective, the current values of both … Continue reading
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November 2011 Trade Balance Deficit Grows, But Underlying Data Good
Data for November 2011 showed the trade balance deficit is again beginning to grow according to the US Census seasonal adjustment methodology. In perspective, the current values of both imports and exports are at record levels – and a slight … Continue reading
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