Monthly Archives: December 2012

heading to the fiscal cliff, home price indexes, and a deconstruction of new home sales for November…

with few reports and several bloggers taking the holiday week off, it was probably the slowest week of the year in the blogosphere…and even though it was widely publicized that obama cut his Hawaii holiday vacation short on Wednesday and … Continue reading

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fiscal follies, November’s income & outlays, 3rd qtr GDP revision, week’s manufacturing & housing reports, & unemployment by state

with the so-called fiscal cliff fast approaching, the various proposals floated during the negotiations again were the center of interest in the economic blogosphere and the financial media over the past week, with related news and opinion probably encompassing a … Continue reading

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QE4, November’s retail sales, CPI, and industrial production, and October’s trade

at least for much of the economic blogosphere, the story that garnered the most attention this past week had to have been the announcement of an expanded round of quantitative easing by the Fed, following their two day FOMC meeting … Continue reading

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November employment & ISM surveys, 3rd quarter Flow of Funds, & October consumer credit

it should go without saying that the fiscal cliff has continued to dominate the discussion in the blogosphere and the media, as it probably will till year end…some of the point-counterpoint on what transpired this past week is included in … Continue reading

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3rd qtr GDP revision, 3rd qtr household debt, Oct income and outlays, Sept Case-Shiller indexes, et al

with the holiday week over and both congresscritters and econobloggers back in the trenches, the controversy around the year end fiscal cliff reached a new crescendo this past week, with just about everyone now weighing in as to how the … Continue reading

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