EconomPics Recap

I just came to the realization that I haven't had an EconomPic recap since March 9th, so here goes:

Economic Data

• Trade Deficit Blow Out
• The Consumer is Back... Consumer Credit Positive (even excluding student loans)
• Ugliest Employment Chart You'll See?
• Employment Market Continues to Muddle Along
• Personal Income and Outlays... A Few Charts
• GDP Breakdown
• How's That Austerity Working?
• Leading Economic Indicators (less Fed Control) Negative
• Retail Sales Continue to Show Strength
• State Taxes
• What's Another Trillion?

Investing

• Stocks for the Long Run?
• When Leverage Attacks
• April ETF Performance Recap
• Baby's Got Sauce... Checking in on the World's Greatest Rotation Strategy
• More on that Treasury Blood Bath
• The Power of Momentum
• Why Investors are Reaching for Yield?
• Chinese Treasury Holdings Back to 2010 Levels
• The VIX as an Equity Hedge
• Baseball Valuations Soar
• "Risk On" in Q1
• Not All Bonds are the Same
• About that Treasury Blood Bath

Random

• Quantifying March Madness

And your video of the week... Beastie Boys (RIP MCA) closing out 'The New Style'.