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In 1989, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took a famous trip to a grocery store in Texas. The event lives on…

FOMC votes to reduce the Fed funds rate by 25bps with one dissent (Stephen Miran, on loan…

Government has approved the draft 2026 State Budget with a significant deficit. The focus is not only defense funding, but…

by Calculated Risk on 9/16/2025 07:50:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.Wednesday:• At…

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. -Galileo Galilei Any science contends with a difficult problem:…

If credibility is degraded, then tariff induced cost-push shocks are less likely to manifest as one-off price…

by Calculated Risk on 9/15/2025 07:53:00 PM From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Start Week at Another…

El Camino Real (ECR), State Highway 82, the main thoroughfare connecting San Jose with San Francisco, is sandwiched between Federal…

Video of proceedings tomorrow (Tues, 9/16) on WisconsinEye. Source: Pawel Skrzypczynskiaccessed 9/14/2025. Particpants: Menzie Kentan economics professor in UW-Madison’s La…

by Calculated Risk on 9/15/2025 08:11:00 AM Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.6% week-over-week.  Inventory usually starts…