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Jobless claims, ADP payrolls, ISM services, Vehicle sales
Economic Releases
Mar 03, 2021
Employment growth has stalled: Not looking good: Also fading:
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Durable goods, pending home sales, personal income and spending, consumer credit
Economic Releases
Feb 26, 2021
Back to 2018 levels with lots lost during the dip: Still drifting lower: Another round of Federal checks hit last month: The economy is generating less personal income than pre covid and fading: Some of the increased income was saved: Some was spent, but consumption has still not fully recovered: Consumer borrowing
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New home sales, mortgage purchase applications, bank real estate lending, crude oil prices
Economic Releases
Feb 24, 2021
Settling in at perhaps somewhat higher levels: Promising! Not showing up here yet: No telling what the Saudis are up to:
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Consumer sentiment, unemployment claims, housing starts, lumber, retail sales, industrial production
Economic Releases
Feb 19, 2021
Alarmingly high this long after the crisis and no longer moving lower: Seems ‘on average’ it’s hard to say much has changed: Though this looks promising: Tariffs and Covid related supply issues are commonplace: Nice move up after the move down, but still looking net lower than otherwise for the last 12
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Small business index, JOLTS, corn
Economic Releases
Feb 09, 2021
Back to where it was pre Trump: New hires down, openings up some but that includes openings to replace higher cost workers: Exporting our food supply (in addition to turning it into motor fuel and burning it up) so we can pay more fighting over what’s left:
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Employment
Economic Releases
Feb 05, 2021
Looking bad: Looks like the long term growth of government employment was reversed by Obama, then it increased under Trump until the covid crisis:
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Claims, durable goods orders, vehicle sales
Economic Releases
Feb 04, 2021
Still massively elevated: Orders are about back to where they were but remain at sub 2018 levels: Still soft and sales lost during the dip not recovered: Sales continue to shift from passenger cars:
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Personal income and spending
Economic Releases
Feb 01, 2021
Personal income went up with the crisis due to Federal transfers of the Cares Act, which subsequently faded: Personal income excluding government support continues to lag behind prior levels: Even with the higher levels of total personal income consumption has lagged and most recently decreased as government benefits expired: A part of
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Trade, architecture billings, Covid chart, bank lending
Economic Releases
Jan 27, 2021
Promising: No recovery yet:
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Unemployment claims, consumer sentiment, household debt
Economic Releases
Jan 21, 2021
No problem here seems:
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