Source: Census via Calculated Risk

Source: Yahoo Finance

Source: Eurostat

Calculated Risk posted some great recession measure "drawdown" charts: Real GDP / GDI Real income less transfer payments Industr...

I was just having a conversation with a friend who asked me how retail spending could remain strong (up more than 8% year-over-year through ...

My recent post Corporate Profits, Economic Growth, and Equity Valuation outlined that equity performance can be quite volatile, but over th...

I loved this post a buddy of mine (and long-time trader), Dave Nadeau , made over Facebook (reprinted with his permission) regarding the re...

A relatively quiet week at EconomPic, but posting a weekly recap because I simply wanted to share a song that I can't get out of my head...

Scott Grannis asks : Corporate profits are fantastic—what's wrong with equity prices? As I've discussed numerous times (an example ...

Reuters details: President Barack Obama on Friday warned Americans to take Hurricane Irene seriously and urged them to obey orders to evacu...

The Street outlines that continuing claims are continuing to trend down: The total number of Americans filing for unemployment look a bit ...

FT Alphaville asked if this two day decline in the price of gold was the Kiss of Death for Gold? , while Nouriel Roubini compared the recen...

Interesting day. Equities, fixed income, and gold reversed course for the second day in a row after huge runs in the other directions the pr...

At current interest rates, an individual will lose purchasing power in their savings account if there is even an inkling of inflation. A com...

I will (likely) be taking a mini hiatus next week traveling. I will try to be a bit more involved on Twitter, which I had simply been using ...

Source: Conference Board

Let's rewind... the Economist detailed back in November: Even before the Federal Reserve unveiled its second round of quantitative easi...

On the basketball court that is. ESPN details: Georgetown's tour through China turned ugly Thursday when a game between the Hoyas and t...

In my previous post Is the Earnings Yield Divergence Unprecedented? we saw that the current differential in the earnings yield of the S...

The AFP details: Inflation roared back in July at the fastest pace since March, squeezing consumers just as the economy appears to be veeri...

As I showed last week , we are only slightly above the all-time low of 1.95% we saw back in the 1940's. Source: Yahoo Finance

Updated version (the charts only) of my October 2010 post On the Value of Gold : I've been a gold bull for a while now (see my post ...

Nasdaq details: US PPI increased 0.2% in July, following a -0.4% drop in June, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

In case you missed this yesterday. Source: Eurostat

Bloomberg details: Industrial production advanced 0.9 percent in July. Although the index was revised down in April, primarily as a resu...

The WSJ details: Private foreign investors sold a record amount of U.S. Treasurys in June as the U.S. debt-ceiling debate intensified. Whi...

I'm a big fan of Felix Salmon (you will notice he is on my blogroll ), but he dropped the ball in this post outlining the "unprec...

As reader / blogger GYSC stated it (I couldn't possibly come up with a better title): I am long see-saws and rubber bands. Sorted by ...

The chart below shows the ten year Treasury yield over the last 100 years combining monthly data from Irrational Exuberance and daily data ...

The below shows the Price / Earnings ratio for all components of the DJIA excluding financials (don't have a clue as to whether their e...

Source: Yahoo Finance

Source: Yahoo Finance

Remember WAY back (i.e. two weeks ago) when the VIX was below 20? Yeah... me neither. Source: Yahoo Finance

While this will certainly not be the top data point investors are digesting, the AP detailed on Friday that consumers are once again levera...

I present below the " EconomPic Data Relative Strength Index". What it shows is the percent that a variety of ETFs are above and...

The WSJ details: After two hours of analysis, Treasury officials discovered that S&P officials had miscalculated future deficit projec...

Bloomberg details: Private hiring, which excludes government agencies, climbed 154,000 last month after an 80,000 gain. It was projected to...

The chart below shows the change in employment via the household survey (the survey used to calculate the unemployment rate). What it shows ...

Source: Yahoo Finance

As I've detailed over the last month, market volatility appeared suppressed due to all the liquidity thrown at the problems: Buying Opti...

Peter Boockvar (via The Big Picture ) details: July ISM manufacturing index at 50.9 was well below expectations of 54.5, down from 55.3 in J...

Source: Yahoo Finance

It's been a long while since an EconomPic recap, so here goes... Asset Classes Equity Valuation Based on GDP Growth Rewind: On the Value...

I've recommended Steve Keen's piece The Roving Cavaliers of Credit before, but I highly recommend it for those that think inflation...

As ten year yields re-approach 2.7% levels, let us revisit (i.e. pat myself on the back for) a post from last September when yields were 2.7...