Bloomberg details: The U.S. economy expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter as a softening job market prompted Americans to curb sp...

Bloomberg details: The index of U.S. leading economic indicators fell more than forecast in June, a sign the U.S. economic expansion is slo...

Bloomberg details: Consumer credit climbed more than forecast in May, led by the biggest jump in credit-card debt in almost five years that...

In my post outlining the decline in employment (excluding teens), reader Mike pointed out another interesting phenomenon: One of the storie...

Peter Boockvar provides details of the ugly job report: June Payrolls totaled 80,000, 20,000 less than expected and well below the ADP whis...

I had never heard of the VVIX index (the volatility of the stock market's volatility "volatility of VIX ") until a week back...

Early last week, Barry Ritholtz outlined what he believed were the top ten most common investor errors: Here is my short list: 1. High Fees...

Despite a volatile second quarter, risk assets (actually all assets with the exception of commodities) performed quite well in the first hal...

Back in September of last year, I showed this chart outlining that corporate profits as a percent of GDP were approaching a three-standard ...

Marketwatch reports: The risk of a downturn in the second half of this year is relatively low, the Conference Board said Thursday as it rep...

Over the past two months, the Fed's FOMC has: Reduced forecasts for growth in 2012, 2013, and 2014 Increased expectations of unemployme...

Yesterday, I made a bullish case for equities over the long run (especially when compared to bonds), today I will outline one of the reason...

I've shown that valuation matters numerous times over the years when it comes to long-term equity returns (see here , here , and here f...

BusinessWeek details: U.S. retail sales declined in April and May, pulled down by a sharp drop in gas prices. But even after excluding vola...

The NY Times details: The recent economic crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasi...

As I've outlined before , wages tend to be the one of the better predictors of inflation (or deflation) out there as wages tend to be ve...

The dividend yield of the S&P 500 is above that of the ten year Treasury for the first time since the financial crisis. Before that we h...

George Soros ' recent speech on what created the Euro bubble (and how it will need to play out) is making the rounds (although he delete...

The higher that market implied volatility becomes, the more attractive put selling (as a replacement to being long stocks) becomes. The ch...

Marketwatch details: The U.S. economy ran into a deeper soft patch in the first quarter than initially estimated, a government report showe...

It's amazing that it was only a bit more than two months ago that I wrote this post defending bonds against what was labeled the "...

While the overall level of existing home sales is still well below the bubble peak (4.62 million vs. 7+ million in mid-2005), the trend is p...

Source: Conference Board

Despite the recent turmoil, unlike when I showed this chart last August (a time when the dollar was selling off and gold / commodities were...

Marketwatch details: Inflationary pressures are fading, just as Federal Reserve officials expected. But don’t think that the decline in the...

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...

Remember when we thought the U.S. was going to export our way back to prosperity riding European and emerging market aggregate demand (that ...

While the below chart cherry picks one of the best performing fixed income sectors, it is still pretty amazing. Bonds (defined in this examp...

SF Gate details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. surged in March by the most in more than a decade on growing demand for educational financi...

Per Felix Salmon : As Mike Konczal noted this morning, a key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re s...

The NY Times details: The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less tha...

The real estate market is certainly heating up in the San Francisco, my new city, despite the broader Case Shiller Home Index still hoverin...