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The employment report for February came in far stronger than expected and with the upward revisions January 'shocked' many. We weren't surprised, we've disc...

Don't panic over Coronavirus and the drop in the stock market. As of Friday's close, the S&P 500 was up 3.61% for the year. We've known about the Coronavir...

The PPI data released today came in much higher than expected on both a month over month (MoM) and year over year (YoY) basis. While one report outlier gene...

The Employment Report for Jan 2020 further convinces us that a secondary boom in the US economy has begun. Virtually every economic measure in the last mont...

Both the Markit and the ISM Manufacturing Survey came in higher than expected in the January 2020 report. That is viewed as a 'surprise', but it shouldn't b...

As global stock markets selloff in the face of uncertainty of a possible Coronavirus pandemic, some perspective is needed. Uncertainty is increased because ...

Our expectations for 2020 economic activity are not markedly changed from 2019. In general, we expect growth of about 2.5% and interest rates to remain subdu...

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009 virtually every sector of the US economy has recovered and exceeded prior levels in economic activity. Ever...

"You can't sell from an empty wagon," said my boss Terry Doyle as we were discussing our holdings of US Agency bonds on the trading desk. He was right, at t...

There are numerous indicators we track to gauge economic and business cycle strength which we believe will help to determine the direction of investment mark...

US Government Debt is increasing at a pace greater than $1T annually as the tax cuts have decreased tax receipts at a greater pace than new taxes raised thro...

The Employment Situation Report (also called the Non-Farm Payroll Report) gives a monthly snapshot of the employment (and unemployment ) situation in the US...

Economic activity in the U.S. grew at an annualized rate of 1.9% in Q3, down very slightly from 2% in Q2, but better than economists' expectations of 1.6%. T...

And what does it mean? We've often discussed household debt as an indicator of economic growth. The more debt a household has, the less likely it is to take...

There are many ways to measure economic strength and weakness. One we look at quarterly is the level of credit applied for, accepted, rejected, and defaulte...

Income drives sales, sales drives inventories, and all drive GDP. There has been some concern that the slowdown in wholesale inventories gains were pointing ...

There are many different data sets from which to view and analyze the employment picture in the US. The Non-Farm Payroll report (NFP) is one that generally ...

In 2008 the Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) began a program of Quantitative Easing in conjunction with deep cuts in the Federal Reserve Funds Rate (sometimes ...