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Category Archives: Economy
Homeowners Preserve Rising Home Equity
The Mortgage Corner Graph: MarketWatch/Black Knight American homeowners have amassed a record $6 trillion in equity in their properties, according to a study by real estate data firm Black Knight, a figure boosted by surging home prices and a trend … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Housing, housing market, Weekly Financial News
Tagged existing-home sales, home equity, housing starts, interest rates
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What Do Slowing Retail Sales Mean?
Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Econoday Retail sales are slowing this fall, yet consumers’ confidence is at an all-time high. Why are consumers buying less and saving more this season? It could be higher interest rates, as the Fed has raised … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Weekly Financial News
Tagged consumer spending, Federal Reserve, inflation, interest rates
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Does Lower Inflation Mean a Goldilocks Economy?
Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Calculated Risk Consumers are being helped by consumer prices that are barely rising. The Consumer Price Index is up just 2.7 percent, and core CPI without food and energy prices up 2.2 percent in 12 months. … Continue reading
August Jobs Report No Big Deal
Popular Economics Weekly Graph: MarketWatch Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 201,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Weekly Financial News
Tagged Great Recession, inflation, nonfarm payrolls, trade tariffs, unemployment report
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Important Unemployment Report Tomorrow?
Financial FAQs Graph: Econoday Tomorrow’s U.S. unemployment report is predicted to drop the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent, according to MarketWatch. But that may be misleading, as almost one million job openings remain unfilled, which could boost the payroll jobs … Continue reading
What Really Is Fair Trade?
Popular Economics Weekly China is our trading partner with the largest deficit; $506 billion in exports to the US vs. $130 billion in imports from US for a -$376 billion trade deficit in 2017. Canada is the 2nd largest partner … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Macro Economics, Weekly Financial News
Tagged foreign trade, nafta, tariffs, tpp, trade deficit
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Labor Productivity is the Golden Fleece
Financial FAQs Graph: Econoday Rising labor productivity is the golden fleece of economic growth, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, because major economists maintain it is really the only way workers can raise their standard of … Continue reading
Where Goes the Housing Market?
The Mortgage Corner Graph: Econoday We definitely have a housing shortage. Housing construction is unable to keep up with the demand for single-family homes, in particular. Year-on-year, starts are down 1.4 percent with completions, at a 1.188 million rate, down … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Housing, housing market, Weekly Financial News
Tagged affordable housing, foreign trade, home prices, housing starts, NAHB, NAR, rental housing, tariffs
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Interest Rates Dangerously Low?
Popular Economics Weekly Graph: FRED Why should historically low interest rates be a problem, you say? Doesn’t that help consumer demand by enabling consumers to buy more by borrowing more cheaply, and economic growth by encouraging companies to create more … Continue reading
Posted in Consumers, Economy, Politics, Weekly Financial News
Tagged CBO, federal debt, interest rates, New York Federal Reserve
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Loneliness in America is a Public Health Problem
ANSWERING THE KENNEDYS CALL As part of our series on community-building I am reporting on what happens to Americans as a result of the breakdown of community, which Robert Putnam first documented in his best-seller, “Bowling Alone: the Collapse and … Continue reading
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