Category: US Economy
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, December 21, 2012
How Will the Housing Market Affect the U.S. Economy in 2013? / Economics / US Economy
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: One of the most important sectors of the economy is the housing market. The housing market is crucial for several reasons. First, the housing market employs a lot of people, both directly and indirectly. This includes the direct employment of people in the housing industry, such as tradesmen and homebuilders, and the indirect employment of people in related industries, such as the automakers that build pickup trucks to be used by tradesmen and homebuilders.
Friday, December 21, 2012
BEA Raises U.S. 3rd Quarter 2012 GDP Growth Estimate to 3.09% / Economics / US Economy
By: CMI
In their third (and "final") estimate of the US GDP for the third quarter of 2012 the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) found that the economy was growing at a 3.09% annualized rate, an upward revision of +0.42% from the previously published estimate for that quarter and 1.83% better than the second quarter of 2012.
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Fed Policy of Phony Economic Growth Will Destroy the U.S. Dollar / Economics / US Economy
By: Peter_Schiff
By upping the ante once again in its gamble to revive the lethargic economy through monetary action, the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee is now compelling the rest of us to buy into a game that we may not be able to afford. At his press conference this week, Fed Chairman Bernanke explained how the easiest policy stance in Fed history has just gotten that much easier. First it gave us zero interest rates, then QEs I and II, Operation Twist, and finally "unlimited" QE3.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
U.S. Economy, We Can Ignore Reality! / Economics / US Economy
By: DeviantInvestor
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Ayn Rand
With apologies to Ayn Rand, let’s explore some examples of ignoring reality.
We can ignore the (U.S. government) deficit, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring the deficit. If the deficit increases each year, the total debt will soon be so out of control that it is unpayable. Oops, the United States is there now. The consequences that we cannot ignore are:
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
BlackRock's Fink: Very Bullish on US Economy 2013 / Economics / US Economy
By: Bloomberg
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, guest hosted Bloomberg TV's "Market Makers" with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle today. Fink said that he's "very bullish" on the United States and "our corporations are in fabulous shape with $1.7 trillion in cash...I don't believe you're going to see that much default risk in the next few years."
Fink also said that "95% of the people that are talking about [the fiscal cliff] have no clue" and "I think we will find a solution."
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Sunday, December 09, 2012
Startling Look at U.S. Job Demographics by Age / Economics / US Economy
By: Mike_Shedlock
ZeroHedge had an interesting set of charts of BLS data in his post Number Of Workers Aged 25-54 Back To April 1997 Levels.
I picked up on that theme and put together this chart of BLS data showing various age groups.
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Sunday, December 09, 2012
U.S. Real Hourly Wages and Hours Worked Analysis / Economics / US Economy
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short. Here is a look at two key numbers in today’s monthly employment report for November: Average Hourly Earnings and Average Weekly Hours. The government has been tracking the data for Production and Nonsupervisory Employees for decades. But coverage of Total Private Employees only dates from March 2006.
Let’s look at the broader series, which goes back far enough to show the trend since before the Great Recession. I want to look closely at a five-snapshot sequence.
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Saturday, December 08, 2012
Why the 98% Matter to the U.S. Economy / Economics / US Economy
By: InvestmentContrarian
George Leong: President Obama is on a fiscal cliff campaign to show why middle-class America really needs the help. Of course, Republicans want the Bush-era tax cuts to also apply to the top two percent of income earners. This is the major sticking point holding up a deal.
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Friday, December 07, 2012
U.S. Household Net Worth: The ”Real” Story / Economics / US Economy
By: PhilStockWorld
Courtesy of Doug Short writes: A quick glance at the complete household net worth data series in a linear chart shows a distinct bubble in net worth that peaked in Q4 2007 with a trough in Q1 2009, the quarter the equity markets bottomed. The latest Fed balance sheet shows a total net worth that is 26.4% above the 2009 trough but still 3.8% below the 2007 peak. The nominal Q3 net worth is up 2.7% from Q2 and up 10.4% year over year.
Thursday, December 06, 2012
U.S. Census Bureau - Manufacturing Report / Economics / US Economy
By: Submissions
ForexAbode writes:
Summary:
October 2012 new orders for manufactured durable goods increased 0.8 percent, to $477.6 billion. Shipments rose 0.4 percent, to $482.3 billion. Unfilled orders increased 0.3 percent, to $982.9 billion. And inventories rose 0.1 percent, to $616.0 billion.
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Will the U.S. Economy Follow Brazil’s Rapid Drop in GDP Growth? / Economics / US Economy
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: With the world economy slowing, it is possible that we could see a global recession in 2013. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth for many countries has significantly declined in the third quarter of 2012. While some countries experienced an increase in GDP growth in the first part of the year, it’s quite apparent going into the third quarter that, for most nations, the estimates were far too high.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Fed’s Most Ominous Economic Indicator! / Economics / US Economy
By: Sy_Harding
Fed Chairman Bernanke has been pounding the table publicly and privately, stressing how important it is that Congress reach an agreement preventing the economy from going over the fiscal cliff at year-end. You’ve seen the numbers estimating the impact on the already anemic economy.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Economic Impact of Super-Storm Sandy and the Electoral Blues Update / Economics / US Economy
By: CMI
Earlier this month we reviewed the impact of Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election on the shopping behavior of American consumers by comparing this year's behavior with what we had observed during the 2008 election campaign. In both cases we witnessed a significant fall-off in consumer demand that was broadly coincidental with the election:
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Hurricane Sandy and the Economy: The Lesson from Katrina / Economics / US Economy
By: PhilStockWorld
Doug Short writes: In studying the data for my latest Big Four Economic Indicators update, I wondered how much impact Hurricane Sandy might have had on the economy in October and what to expect in the months ahead. I thought it would be interesting to take a close look at the behavior of the Big Four in the months before and after Hurricane Katrina hit the coast in August 2005.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Green Shoots of a US Economic Recovery? / Economics / US Economy
By: Alasdair_Macleod
There is growing hope in some quarters that economic recovery is at last under way in the USA. Is this just an election-inspired pick-up in sentiment, now rapidly vanishing, or do we take it more seriously; and if it really is recovery, what are the inflationary consequences?
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Friday, November 09, 2012
Can President Obama Really Help the U.S. Economy? / Economics / US Economy
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: When it comes to the latest presidential election, the central focus for many U.S. citizens has been the lack of gross domestic product (GDP) growth for America. Since the Great Recession began several years ago, GDP growth has remained far below potential, leaving millions of people unemployed and looking for work. During this time, the global economy has also slowed. While President Barack Obama has made large claims about what he can do to help increase GDP growth, let’s take a look at the most likely scenario.
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Friday, November 02, 2012
Why Hurricane Sandy May Not Be All That Stimulating for US Economy / Economics / US Economy
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Invariably, every major disaster comes with the pundits who promise it brings a silver lining.
With a price tag of $50 to $70 billion, some economic forecasters are already rejoicing about the economic "stimulus" that rebuilding from Sandy will bring. If only it were so.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Austerity Problems, Fiscal Cliff Perils, U.S. Election it's the Economy Stupid! / Economics / US Economy
By: John_Mauldin
“Spain is not Greece” – Elena Salgado, Spanish Finance Minister, February 2010
“Portugal is not Greece” – The Economist, April 2010
“Greece is not Ireland” – George Papaconstantinou, Greek Finance Minister, November 2010
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Halloween And The Ghost Economy / Economics / US Economy
By: Andrew_McKillop
Ghost cities in China, ghost racetracks in Greece, ghost jobs and growth in America: Halloween is coming right on time. However, in the now intensely mythologized Euro Crisis, even the ghost of terminal crisis seems to be dying. Today, the Eurozone is running a bigger and bigger capital surplus simply because the economy collapsed. With it, there are impressive falls in imports of Donald Duck flashlights and other stuff from China. Even black oil imports from friendly Russia and Arab countries are declining: most recent YOY data for motor fuel demand in the Eurozone-17 group shows about 6.5% decline. Trade deficits can only decline - as in the USA.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
U.S. Economic Recovery, Monetary Policy, and Demographics Analysis / Economics / US Economy
By: Mike_Shedlock
Fresh on the heels of my 3:38 AM post Charting Errors in BLS Participation Rate Projections came an interesting speech by William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.