at Calculated Risk on 1/17/2025 09:15:00 AM Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial Production (IP) increased by 0.9 percent in December after moving up 0.2 percent…
at Calculated Risk on 1/17/2025 09:29:00 AM Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December A letter excerpt: Total housing…
at Calculated Risk on 1/17/2025 08:30:00 AM From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions Housing Starts:Privately-owned housing starts in December were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,499,000.…
at Calculated Risk on 1/16/2025 07:41:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Housing Starts for December. The consensus…
Are you teaching international economics in the spring? Or just want to learn more about the field? Consider adopting/purchasing this new textbookby myself and Douglas Irwin (available now in digital…
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen. Enjoy.
Heritage Foundation’s EJ Antoni shared this graph of the CPI level: Aside from including the pandemic era price level, I thought about what happened to real wages. These have risen…
at Calculated Risk on 1/16/2025 10:02:00 AM The DOL reported: In the week ending January 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims were 217,000an increase of 14,000 from…
at Calculated Risk on 1/16/2025 10:12:00 AM On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.4% from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.9 percent from December 2023.…
at Calculated Risk on 1/16/2025 10:19:00 AM The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47, up from 46 last month. Any number…
