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Dr Ed's Video Webcast 7/18/22
Video Webcasts· · 1 min read

Dr Ed's Video Webcast 7/18/22

What’s ahead for the stock market? That depends on the significance of the S&P 500’s June 16 low-to-date…

Homebuilders' Sentiment  Plummets
Housing Market· · 1 min read

Homebuilders' Sentiment Plummets

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, a survey designed to gauge market conditions, found builder sentiment dropped…

DEEP DIVE: Braking China
Deep Dive· · 2 min read ·Members

DEEP DIVE: Braking China

China continues to watch its real estate market deflate and its Covid cases inflate, while worries about its banking system grow. No…

The Economic Week Ahead 7/18/22
Week Ahead· · 1 min read

The Economic Week Ahead 7/18/22

The week ahead is a light one for economic indicators. Monday starts out with May's Treasury International Capital System data…

A Growth Recession?
Economy· · 2 min read ·Members

A Growth Recession?

Following today's retail sales and industrial production reports, the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tracking model revised real GDP growth…

Jamie's Hurricane
Economy· · 1 min read

Jamie's Hurricane

The stock market is down this morning on worse-than-expected PPI inflation news, heightening fears of more aggressive Fed tightening and a recession.…

The Rent Is Too D@mn High!
Inflation· · 1 min read

The Rent Is Too D@mn High!

The Fed's ultra-easy monetary policies, in response to the pandemic, caused home prices to soar, and now rents are soaring.…

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Bonds· · 1 min read

Copper, Gold, Bonds & Stocks

The ratio of the nearby futures prices of copper to gold has been falling lately. The ratio has been a remarkably good indicator for the 10-year US Treasury bond yield.