Browsing: Economy

by Lenore Skenazy, ReasonAugust 9, 2025. Excerpt: During this visit, the social services worker acknowledged that our home was clean,…

Here’re other prior 2 month cumulative revisions, normalized by employment (after all, the country has been growing…

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:Click on graph for larger image.• Q2 NY Fed Report: Mortgage Originations…

With all the discussion of free trade, tariffs, and non-tariff barriers, I decided to pick up and quickly skim a…

Personally, I’m not convinced, but if you are, then consider this graph: Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment…

by Calculated Risk on 8/09/2025 08:11:00 AM The key reports this week are July CPI and Retail Sales.For manufacturing, the…

I found many interesting points in a recent Financial Times story about cocoa beans, the main ingredient of chocolate: see…

From Cleveland Fed, Goldman Sachs, plus Bloomberg consensus – generally, acceleration in the q/q annualized: Figure 1:…

In July, the government took several important steps in recovery planning — it approved a medium-term investment plan and expanded…

by Calculated Risk on 8/07/2025 10:29:00 AM The U.S. hotel industry reported mostly positive year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest…