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Next week, the BLS will issue the Jobs Report – the last one before the usual holiday hiring season begins. Jobs growth is seasonal – and most are so attuned to the seasonally adjusted...

There are enough analysts believing the USA is in, or about to be in, a recession – that one is kept in a higher alert status for signs. These informed opinions need to be taken seriously as the...

Unless one is off the grid, political ads resonate through the media. The one issue on which the two political camps disagree is whether the voters are better off than they were when the current...

It is easy to start blaming poor economic conditions for the poor jobs growth. But what if the poor economic conditions were caused by poor jobs growth?Consider that the widely used tool of GDP as the...

The Tech sector is the new king of the mountain when it comes to dividend payouts. The latest data shows that the high flying growth sector of the past several decades has matured and now edges...

The amount of economic data and analysis in cyberspace is overwhelming. One must pre-decide what is important, and not important. Even with automation where human minds do not touch the data –...

According to Econintersect, the July 2012 pending home sales index released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) suggests:August 2012 unadjusted existing home sales of 445,000 (see details...

This has been robot week, seemingly precipitated by a New York Times article Skilled Work, Without the Worker. Rapid improvement in vision and touch technologies is putting a wide array of manual jobs...

I really have two focus discussions this week and will start with the headline topic. Most of us have a few coins parked in our brokerage account – and usually this money is swept into a Money...

Here we go again. Election season is here and all we hear is how the incumbent or the challenger is off base and leading the U.S. to disaster. The two biggest campaign talking points are unemployment...

This past week we analyzed the latest BEA release on personal income and expenditure. The bottom line was Joe’s income was up, his spending was down. Joe seems to be marginally hunkering down....

This is the time of the month that Econintersect begins to prepare their economic forecast for August 2012. Sitting here working on the forecast and listening to CNBC in the background – the...

While watching Chairman Bernanke weave and bob in front of Congress this past week, I started to ponder what he said: The U.S. economy has continued to recover, but economic activity appears to have...

Based on comments on my last post, that there are misconceptions about consumer spending patterns and the effects of price increases. Consider several potential effects caused by price increases:A...

The New York Times this week posted Consumers Unlikely to Rekindle the Recovery. To “prove” their point they presented three nasty but unfortunately correct graphics.This NYT post...

One of my favorite tools for monitoring the health of an economy is imports. Imports naturally increase when the economy expands, and contracts as the economy recesses. Most pundits watch trade...