The WSJ details the potential good news on the job front: Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by 206,000, according to a national employme...

It depends on the time frame you are looking at. The below charts show real appreciation (after inflation), by city where available, going b...

BusinessWeek details: Consumer confidence climbed in November by the most in more than eight years as Americans grew more upbeat about empl...

I wrote back in early October that financials have been an important factor in risk asset performance for the better part of the past four ...

What was down (risk assets), was up, then down again. What was up (Treasuries), was down, then up again. Below is an assortment of sector ET...

Industrial production within Europe for the month of September was ugly (see here ), but nothing compared to new orders made during the same...

Stagnant wages and outsourced production (reduced expenses for corporations - higher unemployment / underemployment for individuals), combin...

Bloomberg details: The economy in the U.S. expanded less than previously estimated in the third quarter, reflecting a drop in inventories t...

Lots of interesting topics in the PEW Research Center's The American-Western European Values Gap . Here's one... Note: bringing up r...

U.S. (Pointing Up) Leading Indicators... Full Steam Ahead Retail Sales Ratchet Higher Capacity Utilization vs. Inflation Employment (Ugly / ...

Whether or not the U.S. can truly break away from European concerns is still an open question, but recent economic data points to a decrease...

The BLS released their latest Business Employment Dynamics report that breaks out positive change in employment (by expansions and new busi...

Update: the Yahoo Finance data for LMVTX that I had used appears to be wrong (no clue why and quite frankly concerning). The chart has been ...

Marketwatch details: The output of the nation’s factories, mines and utilities rose 0.7% in October, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday in ...

FT Alphaville details: The 30-year German bond yield is close to a record low, around 2.48 per cent at pixel time. France might be able to ...

The WSJ details: U.S. retail sales rose in October as Americans spent their dollars at electronics stores and on the Internet, a sign that ...

Last Thursday, my friend GYSC had a post at his blog Economic Disconnect titled Odd Jobs Over the Years . He outlined the jobs he has had ...

Expect there to be a larger focus on European economic data in the coming months. With that in mind, Bloomberg details European industrial ...

Similar to the sentiment hopefully shared by all of you, I am appalled by the horrific events that have taken place over the course of the l...

While the U.S. still imports MUCH more than we export ($43.1 billion more in September alone to be exact), the trend has shown positive sign...

NPR reports: U.S. employers advertised more jobs in September than at any other point in the past three years. The increase suggests hiring...

The New Yorker's The Develeraging Myth states (at a high level) that consumers are not deleveraging because they are still spending: Am...

BusinessWeek details: U.S. employment climbed in October at the slowest pace in four months, illustrating the “frustratingly slow” progress...

While MF Global and the situation in Europe significantly reduce the importance of any economic release, I thought I would highlight today...

As the chart below shows, personal outlays (i.e. spending) has grown significantly faster than wages over the past decade. Even before the c...

BusinessWeek details: The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in a year as Americans reduced savings to boost purcha...

Transfer payments are defined simply as: Money given by the government to its citizens. As long-time readers know, I am all for government ...

Greg Mankiw points out that we've been forgetting about a demographic that has been hit extra hard by the economic downturn... the rich...

Source: Conference Board

EconomPic has outlined the seasonal performance of the equity market (with a "secret sauce" twist) a number of times (most recen...

The WSJ details: It looks as if, despite everything, gross domestic product picked up in the third quarter, easing fears that the U.S. was ...

Investing Emerging Market Rotation Strategy It's All About Financials Industrial Production "Inflection" to Lead Equities Hi...

My buddy Sami Mesrour (from Blackrock ) had a write up earlier this month titled Follow What I Do, Not What I Say; Consumer Spending and C...

Bloomberg details: The index of U.S. leading economic indicators increased in September at a pace that suggests a slower rate of growth in ...

Source: PPI / CPI

The WSJ reports: U.S. industrial production grew in September but the gain was small, underscoring the economy's lack of vigor. Product...

The chart below compares the absolute return of an investment in the S&P 500 vs. the excess return of an investment in the investment gr...

Along with taking a deeper look at macro trends / releases to try to figure out this whole economy thing (in these all-too-interesting times...

PBS details: According to the "establishment survey" of places that hire, the economy added more jobs than predicted: just over 1...

Yesterday, I posted about China's Investment Conundrum (specifically, that China can't keep growing their investments at the torrid...