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The orders-to-inventory ratio is all the way back to January 2009 levels, when the economy was knee-deep in recession. All we can tell you is what the historical record says - at this level in the past, the economy slipped into contraction 75% of the
This is a month by month checkup on the nations economy. The time series starts when everything was fine, in June of 2005, and goes until now.
Jed Graham explains how Government Propped Up Personal Incomes In August. Government transfer payments accounted for 60% of the increase, and the government share of personal income crept further into record territory...
We are likely completing a weak Kitchin Cycle (inventory rebuilding) as a part of the simultaneously downwardly converging Kondratiev Cycle (Long-Wave), the Juglar Cycle (fixed investment), and the Kuznets Cycle (demographic swings).
A single trader executing an unusually large and fast sale using a complex computer algorithm triggered the so-called flash crash that sent the Dow Jones stock index plummeting nearly 998 points in a matter of minutes on May 6, a new report from two
Our entire consumer society has been built upon a foundation of lies. The biggest being the idea that you could get wealthy without saving; the other being that you were wealthy if you owned stuff that made you look wealthy.
A study of the symbols of alchemy reveals how the modern economic system of fiat currency, fractional reserve lending, taxation, and labor price controls lock us into a system of servitude and distorts our perception of time. Just as alchemists chang
f left unremedied, the Senate's failure to act will cost the United States 1.9 million jobs - including 600,000 in the 10 states with joblessness in excess of 10 percent. The report documents that, in the nearly two months since the Senate failed to
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, The "experts" are running the economy, says Tom Woods - Liberty, Guns, and Weed - Ron Paul's Pledge to America
A record high 43 percent of American shoppers plan to spend less during the last quarter of the year than they did in 2009, while only 11.0 percent expect to spend more this Christmas season, according to the group's research.
Whitney really does her homework (one of the few on the Street that does) before throwing out numbers like this, so you have to think she is probably right in the ball park as to what is going to happen.
Tonnage fell by 2.7% from July to August, according to the American Trucking Association. That's the biggest month over month fall since March 2009.
Video: The financial challenges states face could be the next systemic risk within the financial markets, according to Meredith Whitney, CEO of the Meredith Whitney Advisory Group.
"The similarities between the states and the banks are extreme to the extent that states have been spending dramatically and are leveraged dramatically," she said. "Municipal debt has doubled since 2000, spending has grown way faster...
The market is up 1/4%, but your actual purchasing power has dropped twice as much as the market has risen, and since your entire net worth is not in the market, guess what - you have in fact lost. It is not an accident.
People who invest in stocks have no access to real consumer data. Caveat: they would if they paid attention to the Consumer Metrics Institute numbers, which is precisely why I pay so much attention to them. But because nobody does this...
SAIC Motor Corp. said it may invest in the initial public offering of partner General Motors Co., cementing ties between the biggest U.S. and Chinese automakers.
Consumer confidence fell to 48.5 in September, a big drop over August's 53.5. August's numbers were a surprising improvement, rising over July's 51.
The whole world is now optimistic and positioned to take advantage of forever expansionary monetary policies by buying assets, precious metals, real estate, equities, and everybody believes that the central banks in the world will print and print...
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According to Bloomberg, the latest ratio of insider selling to buying was 1,411 to 1. Let us repeat: 1,411 to 1.
or the first time in my lifetime, literally in my lifetime, when coming out of a recession, posted job openings -- that means they'll hire you tomorrow morning if you can do the job ... are going up at twice the rate of job hires. ...
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
The Myth of Limited Government - US Printing Presses at Warp Speed - Repudiate the National Debt - Survival Is Also About Earning a Living - The Monetary and Banking System Is Wrecking Us - As Poverty Spreads, Crime Will Not Be Far Behind
This Nation is a Consumer Driven Economy, that is the very reason that China, Mexico and all other third world nations wish to enter our markets. When our illustrious Congress wishes to raise or to lower taxes, the Democrats wish to soak the ri
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Our laissez-faire trade stance, when coupled with many nations’ protective trade stances and the inherent disparity of living standards around the world, is proving to be a recipe for ever-increasing trade deficits. Exacerbating the situation, GATT a
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Initial jobless claims for the week ending September 18th were 460,000, which was higher than the 450,000 figure expected.
Traders put their September stock rally on hold and moved into Treasurys and gold Wednesday, a day after the Federal Reserve said it was ready to take more action to boost the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 21 points.
As you wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal, you want the federal government to reinstate the estate tax and plunder peons like me. Like your fellow Democrats, you justify the expropriation with platitudes about fairness and about the USA being
