"Be prepared" said the Fed, for interest rates to remain elevated longer than expected.  They now anticipate their overnight rate to be reduced more gradually over time, but do not…

Ben said "A penny saved is a penny earned".  Less famously, he also said “When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty.”  Our nation has now relinquished…

After a runup all year to a high of 56 in July, the NAHB Housing Market Index dropped to 50 in August and now 45 in September. Fifty is the threshold…

The Consumer Price Index came in today as expected with a jump up 0.6% month over month, while the year over year increase jumped to 3.7%, which is 0.1% higher…

Oil prices just hit their highs of the year.  Because crude oil is refined a thousand ways and used in every single level of manufacturing and shipping, it's a bedrock…

  Here's a fun graph from Bloomberg that I stumbled upon, which superimposes the Consumer Price Index from 1966 to 1982 and compares it to 2013 through today.  Perhaps "fun"…

From the top down, we as a country are spending more money that we just don't have. The government and many private companies are issuing additional bonds this week to bring in needed…

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs Report published this morning kicked the Unemployment Rate up from 3.5% to 3.8%, which is still amazingly low. The BLS points out that…

According to NAR, Existing Home Sales fell 4.4% last month while New Home Sales rose by 4.4%. New homes aren't quite making up the transaction count gap though, as they only…

Addressing other cowboys in Jackson, Wyoming this morning, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was as clear as the mountain air as he reiterated his policymakers' stance to wrangle inflation down to 2.0% before…

Existing Homes Sales inched lower in July from June falling 2.2% to an annual rate of 4.07 million units and are down nearly 17% from a year ago. “Two factors…

Mortgage Backed Security pricing has dropped to levels seen last fall when domestic banks like SVB started failing. Banks freezing their assets brought greater illiquidity which drove long term interest rates down over…

Later this week, over 100 economists, central bankers, and journalists will meet up in Jackson Hole for the annual Economic Symposium. The attendance is only about 5% of what DAVOS…

The notes from the FOMC's most recent meeting were released this week, in the which was emphasized the data-dependent approach to fiscal policy and the firm commitment to getting inflation…