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The Economy Is Tracking Three and a Half Percent Growth and Added Twenty Nine Thousand Jobs
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow model put third quarter growth at 3.6% on an annualised basis as of October 8. That
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Copper Hit a Record and the Reason Is That Nobody Can Dig It Up Fast Enough
Three month copper on the London Metal Exchange reached $14,728 a tonne on September 8, an all time high, with the American futures
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JPMorgan Missed and Rose, Goldman Beat by Four Dollars a Share, and Both Tell the Same Story
The large banks opened the third quarter reporting season on October 13. JPMorgan earned $5.57 a share against the $5.90 expected, and
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Gasoline Was More Than Half of September's Inflation, and the Pump Price Is Up a Third in a Year
Consumer prices rose 0.6% in September and 3.7% against a year earlier, up from 3.4% in each of the two preceding
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Medicare's Enrollment Window Opens Today and Three Costs Are Moving Against Enrollees
Medicare open enrollment runs from October 15 to December 7, and whatever is chosen in that window takes effect on January 1. Doing nothing
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Next Year's Tax Brackets Are Being Set by an Inflation Measure Most People Have Never Heard Of
Bloomberg Tax published its projections for the 2027 federal tax figures in September, applying a 3.2% inflation adjustment. On those numbers the standard
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The Banks Report This Week, and the Number That Matters Is Not Profit
JPMorgan Chase opens the third quarter reporting season on October 13, and the large banks follow over the days after it. Consensus has the
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Home Insurance Is Up Forty Six Percent Since 2021 and It Is Not an Inflation Problem
The average American homeowner is expected to pay around $3,057 for property insurance this year, a 4% increase on last year and the
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Private Credit's Bad Loans Jumped Forty Percent in a Quarter and Nobody Had to Announce It
Business development companies, the listed vehicles through which most retail money reaches private credit, reported debt on nonaccrual status of $9.98 billion in
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