Executive Summary In these Weekly Market Updates, I look "under the hood" at hard economic data and present it to our readers. This information may be in contrast to what you hear or read in mainstream media outlets. Below you will find graphs illustrating retail sales and their [...]
Executive Summary I have often written about how debt and demographics are impediments to future growth. In this week's missive, I explain how the Federal government is playing a game with its debt picture. Through some accounting gimmickry, intragovernmental debt is typically excluded from analyses of Federal [...]
Executive Summary In last week's jobs report, did you hear that the unemployment rate increased slightly? Of course not, because you only hear the positive spin from financial media regarding the jobs numbers. In this week's Update, I again share how the employment numbers are derived from two [...]