This week, the economic summary article was published in the Opinion Blog, and is titled USA Trade Deficit Exports 1.3 million Jobs
Weekly Economic Release Scorecard:
| Item | Headline | Analysis |
| Philly Fed Business Survey | Down Slightly | Big jump in new orders and backlog |
| Existing Home Sales | Up MoM | Down YoY, Inventories up YoY, home prices remain relatively flat |
| New Residential Construction | Up 16.7% MoM | The data is an improvement on terrible |
| Oil Shocks and Economic Recessions | Correlates oil prices to USA recessions | |
| Empire State Manufacturing Survey | Up slightly | Still showing manufacturing expanding |
| Sea Container Counts | Up 16% YoY | Record exports but import’s improvements were larger |
| Inflation Rates | Comparing Shadowstat’s data to the CPI | |
| China and the Trade Gap | Is trade war looming? | |
| J P Morgan | Dragons, Haircuts and the Doomsday Machine | |
| Consumer Sentiment | Consumer and small business sentiment remains at or near levels associated with the bottoms of other recent recessions | |
| Opinion: Global Economic Chaos 2011 | Societies on the edge of socio-economic break-up | |
| Opinion: China | Trying to guess China’s direction and policy responses | |
| Opinion: Belgium | Will the seat of the EU leave the Union? | |
| Opinion: 2011 | Cautiously optimistic on the U.S. and global economy | |
| Opinion: Federal Reserve | What would it have been like if the Federal Reserve was not created. |