Charts of the Week
A Long-Term Look at Interest Rates
July 5, 2024
A long-term look at interest rates
A long-term look at interest rates
A long-term look at federal debt & deficit
A long-term look at real S&P 500 total returns
A long-term look at Case Shiller's real home price index
A long-term look at crude oil & gasoline prices
A long-term look at the unemployment rate
A long-term look at global population growth
A long-term look at the cost of movie tickets
Today's topics include previewing the payrolls report, Powell reiterates a wait-and-see approach, another lost decade?, a strong first half often leads to a strong second half for stocks, the AI revolution, politics' effect on Treasuries, your daily update on stock market concentration, and housing affordability.
Today's topics include supply vs. demand inflation, inflation's effect on different income groups, another way to view the bond market's struggles, Fedspeak, comparing current bullishness to the 2000 peak, one fifth of daily U.S. stock volume takes place at the close, adjustable-rate mortgages, and Ballmer catches up to Gates.