Popular Economics Weekly “In April, U.S. manufacturing activity slipped marginally further into contraction after expanding only margina...

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Popular Economics Weekly Wrightson.com It is obvious from the above graph that manufacturing activity is contracting, whereas...

Popular Economics Weekly Fred U.S. retail sales that mirror consumer spending, which powers some two-thirds of U.S. GDP growth...

Popular Economics Weekly The effects of the Trump administration’s trade wars are already slowing down consumer spending; not a good s...

Popular Economics Weekly Econoday How do we reconcile the fact that industrial production in 2018 was very good, probably due ...

Popular Economics Weekly Graph: Marketwatch Consumers have to do better, if GDP growth is to exceed 3 percent, as the recent ...

Popular Economics Weekly Industrial production in April grew at the fastest monthly rate in more than three years on the back of broad-...

Financial FAQs It looks like Q4 GDP could be higher than the Third Quarter’s initial estimate of 2.9 percent growth. That’s because ret...

The Mortgage Corner There’s an exception to the current low inflation prognostications echoed in my column on the San Francisco Fed Joh...

Popular Economics Weekly Many signs are pointing to better growth ahead, led by consumer, or retail spending. Ex-auto ex-gas offers a g...

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 All the talk that QE3 is about to end centers on when the Fed believes inflation will become a problem. Fed Chair...

Popular Economics Weekly With tax rates returning to more normal levels from the rollback of Bush era tax cuts, and Republicans giving up ...

Financial FAQs We are seeing faster economic growth in the fourth quarter, even after the upward revision of Q3 GDP growth to 2.7 percent...

Popular Economics Weekly The Bureau of Labor Statistics gave markets a shot of good news recently, when it revised the one year March-to-M...

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