Monday, December 21, 2015

Can Economy Grow With Higher Interest Rates?

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The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announced it is raising short term interest rates by ¼ percent. But can this economy continue ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Don’t Count On Inflation Moving Federal Reserve

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Popular Economics Weekly The Federal Reserve didn’t raise interest rates today at the close of their FOMC meeting. In fact the 9-1 vote a...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Construction, Retail Sales Higher

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The Mortgage Corner The strength of the economy right now is in the housing and construction sectors, again areas insulated from global fa...
Friday, September 11, 2015

What Should Yellen’s Fed Do?

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Popular Economics Weekly The big question hovering over the markets (both stocks and bonds), is whether the Federal Reserve will finally b...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Unemployment Report Misleading

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Financial FAQs Today’s lower than predicted payroll creation of 173,000 jobs doesn’t change my prediction of higher jobs growth ahead. My ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Higher Productivity, Jobs, Could Mean 3.5 percent GDP

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Popular Economics Weekly It looks like we are returning to the goldilocks economy that prevailed for much of last year—low inflation and i...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Construction Leads Housing, GDP Recovery

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The Mortgage Corner Pending home sales are still rising. And that’s in large part because both residential and non-residential commercial ...