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The Financial Times – Modest expectations Thursday sees the first estimate of US gross domestic product for the first quarter. So has the market followed the habits of the past year and overshot? Out of the last 12 monthly GDP reports, the market...
<Click on chart for larger image> The Wall Street Journal – Saudi Oil Production Doesn’t Add Up Recent oil production figures from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, simply don’t add up. There are competing explanations for...
Comment In the last 30 years, there have been a number of changes in the calculation of CPI: 1981 Began outlet and item sample rotation Began systematic replacement of outlets and their item samples between major revisions Implemented new...
Los Angeles Times – Oil falls, but gasoline prices are still rising Oil prices took a tumble, but the relentless rise in retail gasoline prices continued overnight. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline reached $3.833 Monday,...
Conseulo Mack’s WealthTrack – Interview with Jim Grant On this week’s Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Financial Thought Leader James Grant explains why he believes the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies will wreak havoc on the economy...
<Click on graphic for larger image> Fundmastery (blog) – Gundlach, Treasury Bonds & QE II In a recent presentation, Jeffrey Gundlach, portfolio manager of DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund presented an interesting chart on U.S....
<Click on chart for larger image> Bloomberg.com – Budget Deficit in U.S. Increased to $188.2 Billion in March The U.S. government, on course to reach a record annual budget deficit, posted a monthly shortfall of $188.2 billion in March,...
Comment Today is officially the day when citizens of the United States have earned enough money to pay this year’s tax burden. Any money earned for the rest of the year will theoretically go into the pockets of the wage earners as opposed to...
CNBC – Steve Liesman: An Aggressive Fed? More of the Street Betting On It The survey found that about a third of the economists, fund managers and strategists who responded to the survey see the Fed hiking interest rates this year, double the...
Reuters – U.S. apartment vacancies fall in Q1, rents edge up Reis Inc’s quarterly report showed the vacancy rate dropped to 6.2 percent in the first three months of the year, down from 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter. It was the...
The Wall Street Journal – Investors Look for Clues in Fed Orations This year may turn out to be one with a whole lot of talk and a lot less action from the Federal Reserve. Fed officials have been an unusually vocal bunch lately, and that is...
<Click on picture for larger image> The New York Times – No to a New Tar Sands Pipeline Later this year, the State Department will decide whether to approve construction of a 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast...