Mike Shedlock

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• Does Anything Mean What It Used To?

  Published 27 February 2007 | viewed 4,673 times

  Flashback May 24, 2006 CNN Money reported Yields throw the Fed a curve. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke repeated the view expressed by his predecessor Alan…

• Pricing Risk

  Published 21 February 2007 | viewed 5,236 times

  The USA Today is reporting Sacramento: The pressure's on sellers to lower their prices. Here's an alarming fact about Sacramento's housing market: About one of…

• Largest Home Price Drop on Record

  Published 15 February 2007 | viewed 7,415 times

  Housing is Local (Except when it's National). The NAR is reporting a record slump in home prices. Fourth-quarter report from National Association of Realtors shows…

• Focus on Currencies (Part 1 of 2)

  Published 13 February 2007 | viewed 4,602 times

  What follows is part one of a focus on currencies including the US dollar index, the Yen, the Euro, the British Pound and the Canadian…

• Counterfeiting Money - Crime or Good Economics?

  Published 09 February 2007 | viewed 7,526 times

  Did you ever think that a counterfeiting money could be good for the economy and that the counterfeiter could be considered an economic genius or…

• Inflation Is Now Illegal

  Published 08 February 2007 | viewed 14,314 times

  As stunning as the "Inflation Is Now Illegal" headline might seem, a new law was indeed just passed that officially makes inflation illegal. The New…

• Jobs - the Good, Bad, and Ugly

  Published 03 February 2007 | viewed 4,295 times

  On Friday, February 2, 2007 the BLS released the Employment Report for January 2007. Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 111,000 in January, and the unemployment…

• Gold, M3, and Willingness to Lend

  Published 23 January 2007 | viewed 5,765 times

  Let's start with a quick look at the expansion of the monetary base in comparison to the expansion of broad money supply as measured by…

• World Oil Demand

  Published 21 January 2007 | viewed 5,407 times

  Findfacts is showing that Oil demand falls in Developed World for first time in 20 years. Data issued by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA),…

• Credit Swaps And Bond Yields

  Published 20 January 2007 | viewed 4,843 times

  Moody's is reporting Bonds Safest in at Least 4 Years, Credit Swaps Show. By Shannon D. Harrington The risk of owning corporate debt is the…

• Leading Economic Indicators

  Published 16 January 2007 | viewed 6,513 times

  The Conference Board publishes various lists of Business Cycle Indicators. Those indicators are categorized as leading, coincident, or lagging. This post will take a look…

• Significant Shifts In Psychology

  Published 04 January 2007 | viewed 7,272 times

  I find myself coming back to the same quote from an Interview with Paul Kasriel Mish: How does inflation start and end? Kasriel: Inflation starts…

• Lennar Lays an Egg / Defective Homes Update from Morgan

  Published 02 January 2007 | viewed 5,686 times

  Bloomberg is reporting Lennar to Post Quarterly Loss After Land Writedowns. Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Lennar Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. homebuilder, had its first quarterly…

• Monetary Shock Therapy

  Published 21 December 2006 | viewed 4,983 times

  Today's post is on Thailand and Scotland. The former is on virtually everyone's radar while the latter is on almost no one's. Let's take a…

• Paulson, Bernanke Strike Out

  Published 17 December 2006 | viewed 6,362 times

  At the trade summit opening in China on December 14th Paulson Called for More Flexible Yuan. U.S. Treasury Henry Paulson, facing pressure from Congress for…

• Interview with Paul Kasriel

  Published 11 December 2006 | viewed 6,129 times

  There has been a raging debate on Silicon Investor, the Motley Fool, Minyanville, and nearly everywhere else too about whether or not it is possible…

• Housing Industry Employment

  Published 20 November 2006 | viewed 6,317 times

  I came across an interesting graph of Housing Industry Employment in a Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) PDF entitled Is the Housing Bubble…

• The PPI, Gold, and Dr. Copper

  Published 14 November 2006 | viewed 6,502 times

  On November 14 the BLS released the Producer Price Indexes for October 2006. Weak September data was followed up by even weaker October data. PPI…

• Earnings, Confidence, and Boxes

  Published 25 October 2006 | viewed 4,743 times

  Countrywide reported third-quarter profit rose 2 percent, less than analysts expected, as demand for home loans slumped. The company's shares surged higher on plans to…

• Kool Aid and Krispy Kremes

  Published 16 October 2006 | viewed 8,344 times

  I asked Mike Morgan at Morgan Florida if he had an update for us. Here it is. It is something quite different too. Mike Morgan:…