The Mortgage Corner The initial estimate of first quarter 2024 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth was less than expected (1.6%), causin...

  Financial FAQs Early predictions show first quarter economic growth picking up, but a little-known indicator of future growth, the Conf...

  Financial FAQs There’s a good reason we have avoided a recession, I said last week. Consumers’ personal financial conditions have impro...

  Financial FAQs Is the Irrational Pessimism I’ve been writing about finally turning into a more rational optimism that reflects how co...

F inancial FAQs EPI.org A headline reporting on Fed Chairman Powell’s latest testimony to congress said the Fed will battle inflation un...

Financial FAQs Conference Board One economic growth measure acknowledged by market professionals but few else is the Conference Board’...

  Popular Economics Weekly ConferenceBoardLEI The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. decreased by 0.3 percent ...

Popular Economics Weekly Consumers are feeling good enough to keep the US economy from sinking into recession at the moment. The...

Popular Economics Weekly Sales at U.S. retailers surged in March by the most in a year and a half, the latest in a string of reports s...

Popular Economics Weekly The Republican Congress needs to abandon its obsession with repealing Obamacare, since Republicans will never ...

Popular Economics Weekly Even though Q1 2016 GDP growth looks weak for a number of reasons (such as lower exports and slumping oil pric...

The Mortgage Corner With all the bad news coming from the stock market, it’s good to know that this hasn’t affected the housing market. In...

Financial FAQs The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. increased 0.6 percent in November to 105.5 (2004 = 100), f...

Popular Economics Weekly Both the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment survey and Conference Board’s Index of Leading Indicators ro...

Popular Economics Weekly The February unemployment report gives a big boost to predictions for 2013 growth. The unemployment rate fell to ...

Financial FAQs The most recent retail sales show consumers are able to spend more, even as they borrow more. Add to that credit card delin...

Financial FAQs The summer growth numbers seem weak, and pundits are saying it’s due to the European recession (so lower exports), the ‘fis...

Popular Economics Weekly It seems the lingering doubts about better growth in 2012 have nothing to do with reality. Predictions that job g...