Durable Goods New Orders – Long-Term Charts Through November 2013

Many people place emphasis on Durable Goods New Orders as a prominent economic indicator and/or leading economic indicator. For reference, below are charts depicting this measure. First, from the St. Louis Fed site (FRED), a chart through November, last updated on December 24.  This value is 241,648 ($ Millions) : (click on charts to enlarge …

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Current Economic Situation

With regard to our current economic situation,  my thoughts can best be described/summarized by the posts found under the 31 “Building Financial Danger” posts. My thoughts concerning our ongoing economic situation – with future implications – can be seen on the page titled “A Special Note On Our Economic Situation,” which has been found near …

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Markets During Periods Of Federal Reserve Intervention – December 17, 2013 Update

In the August 9, 2011 post (“QE3 – Various Thoughts“) I posted a chart that depicted the movements of the S&P500, 10-Year Treasury Yield and the Fed Funds rate spanning the periods of various Federal Reserve interventions since 2007. For reference purposes, here is an updated chart from Doug Short’s blog post of December 17 …

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Total Household Net Worth As A Percent Of GDP 3Q 2013

The following chart is from the CalculatedRisk blog post of December 9, 2013 titled “Fed’s Q3 Flow of Funds:  Household Mortgage Debt increased slightly, first Mortgage Debt increase since Q1 2008.” It depicts Total Household Net Worth as a Percent of GDP.  The underlying data is from the Federal Reserve’s Z.1 report, “Financial Accounts of the United States” : (click …

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Median Household Income Chart

I have written many blog posts concerning the worrisome trends in income and earnings. Doug Short, in his December 6 post titled “Real Median Household Incomes:  Excruciatingly Slow and Erratic Improvement” produced the chart below.  It is based upon data from Sentier Research, and it shows both nominal and real median household incomes since 2000, as depicted. …

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Average Hourly Earnings Trends

I have written many blog posts concerning the worrisome trends in income and earnings. Along these lines, one of the measures showing disconcerting trends is that of hourly earnings. While the concept of hourly earnings can be defined and measured in a variety of ways, below are a few charts that I believe broadly illustrate problematic …

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December 3 Gallup Poll Results On Economic Confidence – Notable Excerpts

On December 3, Gallup released the poll results titled “U.S. Economic Confidence Rises in November.”  The subtitle is “Confidence has not yet recovered to pre-shutdown level.” Notable excerpts include: Americans were much more upbeat about the U.S. economy in November than they were in October, but are still less confident than they were in the months …

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Durable Goods New Orders – Long-Term Charts Through October 2013

Many people place emphasis on Durable Goods New Orders as a prominent economic indicator and/or leading economic indicator. For reference, below are charts depicting this measure. First, from the St. Louis Fed site (FRED), a chart through October, last updated on November 27.  This value is 230,252 ($ Millions) : (click on charts to enlarge …

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Consumer Confidence Surveys – As Of November 27, 2013

Doug Short had a blog post of November 26 (“Consumer Confidence Declines Again in November“) in which he presents the latest Conference Board Consumer Confidence and Thomson/Reuters University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index charts.  They are presented below: (click on charts to enlarge images) – – There are a few aspects of the above charts that …

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