This is the table that accompanies the weekly economic review article:  Chilling Headwinds: Energy Costs Stalling the Economy?:

Weekly Economic Release Scorecard:

Item	Headline	Analysis
April Empire State Manufacturers Survey	Improved	Survey looks solid but has an anomaly in backlog
March Industrial Production	Up	Solid performance but note that IP remains at 93.6% of pre-recession levels
March Consumer Prices	Up 2.7% YoY	Consumers may be seeing much higher price increases
March Sea Container Counts	Up	Exports remain at historical highs
Consumer Metrics	Falling	Consumer Contraction now is far exceeding the Great Recession
March Producer Price Index	Up 5.8% YoY	Rate of rise returned to 6 month average after last months surge.
February Business Sales	Up	Size of increase so small it takes a microscope to see
March Retail Sales	Up	Growth trend over last 4 months remains in tight 7% YoY trend
March Retail Sales		USA remains in a retail sales recession
March Import / Export Prices	Up	Prices are up 9% YoY – yet PPI only up 6%???
March Small Business Sentiment	Down	Surprisingly large one month setback in a background of recent up-trending sentiment
March Diesel Consumption	Up	Strong growth
February USA Trade Deficit	Down	Larger than normal decline in imported oil
Retail Sales & Credit		When inflation and population are factored in, no retail sales growth.  Credit growth is only student loans.
Iceland		Why voters rejected compensating Europe for losses
Australia Housing Prices		An expert’s view of what is really going on in Oz
Wines		A look at the effectiveness of Napa, Sonoma, and Columbia in marketing wines
Las Vegas Properties		Kieth Jurow explores whether it is time to buy residential property in Las Vegas
Corporate Forward Earnings		Jeff Miller examines the use of forward earning estimates
Dow Industrials, S&P Index		William Kurtz argues the market has peaked
USA Austerity or Simulus		Elliott Morss looks at if and when the USA should be on IMF standby
Economic Ideologies		Delusional Economics says you need to beware economists with ideologies
Europe		Dirk Ehnts argues low interest rates are a transfer of wealth
Iceland		Michael Hudson shows why Iceland needed to reject paying Europe back
Europe Interest Rate Rise		Dirk Ehnts reviews the conflicts of rising RCB interest rates
China		Michael Pettis looks at bank reform