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Initial Unemployment Claims Warnings Just Keep On Coming
Friday, October 17, 2014 2:56 AM EDT
The headline, fictional, seasonally adjusted number for initial unemployment claims came in at 264,000, thus shocking the Wall Street economist crowd, whose consensus guess was for 290,000.
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Real Reason For Stock Selloff Is Not Retail Sales
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:06 PM EDT
The market sold off today ostensibly because of the lousy retail sales headline number, or at least so the media said,
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Jobless Claims Drop 23% Year To Year, Continue Dangerous Extremes
Thursday, October 9, 2014 3:08 PM EDT
The media continues to present record low jobless claims as positive news, but it's a danger signal.
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Initial Unemployment Claims Per Millions Workers Reach All Time Record Low
Thursday, October 2, 2014 3:01 PM EDT
Initial unemployment claims virtually always hit their low for the year in the first week of September, but the September 27 week cracked that low to reach an all time record low in claims per million workers.
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Even With ZIRP Still Firmly In Place, Real Construction Spending Falls Sharply
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 5:15 PM EDT
Construction spending is declining -- reflecting how the Fed has boxed itself into a corner.
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Initial Claims Celebrate A Year At Record Levels
Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:22 PM EDT
The headline, fictional, seasonally adjusted number for initial unemployment claims of 293,000 surprised Wall Street economists a bit this morning as their consensus guess had been 300,000.
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Overheating Continues As Initial Unemployment Claims Set Another Record Low
Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:51 PM EDT
The headline, fictional, seasonally adjusted number for initial unemployment claims of 280,000 left the consensus estimate of Wall Street economists, 305,000, in the dust this morning.
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For Liquidity, Look No Longer To Fed, Look To ECB
Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:12 PM EDT
While the FED is winding down QE, the BoJ continues to pump liquidity into many of the same dealer banks served by the Fed, and the ECB has now confirmed that it will join the pump-fest.
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US Has Lost 1.4 Million Full Time Jobs Since 2008, Thanks To The Fed
Monday, September 8, 2014 7:27 AM EDT
Let’s cut to the chase. According to the BLS household survey (CPS), there were 1,446,000 fewer people working full time in August than in August 2008.
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Non Farm Payrolls Faux Headline Number Is Misleading
Friday, September 5, 2014 12:06 PM EDT
The impression rendered by the seasonally adjusted nonfarm payrolls headline number of 142,000 jobs added in August is wrong. The consensus guesstimate of Wall Street economists had been for a gain of 223,000. Traders took the “miss” as bullish.
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The Real Impact Of The Newest ECB Super Mario Game
Thursday, September 4, 2014 5:18 PM EDT
The problem in EU is too much debt, particularly too much bad debt. Under the circumstances anything the ECB does to stimulate credit is pushing on a string.
In this article: SPX
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Record Low Claims Send Year Long Warning Signal That End Is Nigh
Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:20 PM EDT
Extremely low initial unemployment claims have an ominous track record. Record low claims suggest a distorted, overheated, bubble top economy.
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The Real Force Behind US Economic “Growth,” Such As It Is, Is Not The Fed
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:15 AM EDT
As the stock market has scooted off into Fed driven bubble territory over the past year, industrial production, on the surface at least, appears to be expanding quite nicely.
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New Home Sales And Charts- Is The Housing Industry On The Brink?
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 11:40 AM EDT
New home sales for July were reported at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 412,000. The consensus expectation of Wall Street economists had been for a rate of 427,000. The media put a downbeat face on that news, reporting that new home sales were unexpectedly down in July, falling 2.4%.
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Record Low Initial Unemployment Claims Correlate With Looming Stock Market Collapses
Friday, August 22, 2014 6:29 AM EDT
Contrary to conventional wisdom, extremely low initial unemployment claims have an ominous track record. Since the initial unemployment claims data first set a record low in September 2013, I have pointed out that record low claims suggest a distorted, overheated, bubble top economy.
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Time Has Come To Bury Caesar
Monday, August 18, 2014 7:24 AM EDT
QE would stimulate housing and cause stock prices to rise, leading to increased consumer confidence and spending.
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