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by Calculated Risk on 7/21/2025 07:44:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Move Slightly Lower to…

A major disagreement between James Buchanan and Anthony de Jasay is whether it is possible to devise a constitution that…

ERS predicts 2.2% increase in food-at-home prices in 2025. Figure 1: CPI food-at-home (black); ERS forecast of January (light blue…

by Calculated Risk on 7/18/2025 02:44:00 PM From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 2Q GDP tracking is down…

by T J Martinelli, The Center SquareJuly 14, 2025. Excerpt: Washington state faces deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just…

That’s the title of a report by the Trump administration CEA earlier this month. It’s an interesting question whether this…

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:Click on graph for larger image.• Housing Starts Increased to 1.321 million…

I really enjoyed Scott Sumner’s recent post about how people are bad at understanding coincidences. There are many reasons why…

Policy uncertainty has remains high; does it matter for economic uncertainty? Figure 1: EPU-trade category (blue, left scale), and Trade…

by Calculated Risk on 7/19/2025 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are June New and Existing Home Sales.For manufacturing,…