Economic Commentary

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The Big Picture

All this week, we are looking at the Housing Recovery theme, challenging assumptions that make up the bullish argument. Monday, we began with Debunking the Housing Recovery Story , starting with Shadow inventory. On Tuesday, it was Reality Check on Home Affordability .

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Gas prices rose for the eighth straight day and the price per gallon of regular is above $3.85 nationwide.

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The S&P 500 posted a second day of declines after setting a new year-to-date high.

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Europe’s leaders — that is to say German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the bureaucrats running the various eurozone agencies from Brussels — have looked into the abyss and don’t like what they see. Specifically, a default and departure by even a relatively insignificant country like Greece might start a contagion that cripples or destroys the [...]

Financial & Economic Infographics - VisualEconomics.com

In today's complicated world, information is coming at you from every direction. Television, print, and the Internet are a powerful trifecta of data delivery systems that can confuse, overwhelm, and discourage people from really getting to the heart of what they want and need to know.

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Many current economic and policy questions share a common theme: Jobs! Employment is a crucial indicator of the current economic situation, but future consumer spending also depends on jobs growth. Corporate profits and stock prices are similarly linked.

A Dash of Insight

Until now, the country’s power grid has been divided into three unconnected chunks, making transnational transmission impossible, leading to huge regional mispricing.

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Financial Armageddon

In "7 Reasons Why The Jobs Recovery Is Real This Time," the Associated Press details what I would consider to be the positive spin on a variety of economic and political developments [ highlighted in red italic for clarity ].

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down and read Matt Yglesias’ The Rent Is Too Damned High and Ryan Avent’s The Gated City back to back. Both were a pleasure to read, for their content, and for the opportunity to kick a couple of bucks to two of my fave bloggers behind an ennobling veil of commerce.

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Negativity is everywhere.

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We are well into the holiday we and I suspect that trading volumes will be on the light side,notwithstanding the chunky auction of 5 year notes later today.

Across the Curve

“I don’t see anything wrong with asking people to pay the expected value of their health care — a mandate to get insurance to cover the catastrophic things that society would cover in any case — to avoid this type of gaming of the system. Yes, it’s true that many healthy people will pay, remain healthy, and seem to get nothing. But that’s the wrong way to look at it.