…my formula. That assumes a 5.75% interest rate, which Edmunds.com says was the average paid by buyers who financed new cars in 2009. The latest statistics from the Census Bureau…

…according to the US census bureau, in 2004 51.35% of households were married couple families. According to the same source, 1.5% of households have income over $250,000. If they are…

…Census jobs. Private employment only increased 41,000, significantly less than in the previous few months. The unemployment rate fell, but that was just as much a result of a rise…

It is nice to finally report that the employment report was encouraging as nonfarm payrolls rose some 290,000 in April. Even if the 66,000 temporary government employment for the census…

…IMPROVES…FOR REAL. See my previous post on the temporary effects of the Census hirings. The underlying demand for goods and services, as determined by the 70% of the economy that…

…evidence of income inequality, I think there are much better measures (such as the Census Bureau’s income data) than these compensation measures. There is too much else going on in…

…I pulled stuff like that from this SBA doc which in turn gets its data from the Census. The data goes back to 1988, but the breakdown of periods is…

…JOBS: Greenspan said he expected the U.S. unemployment rate, which is currently at 10 percent, to “be significantly lower a year from now” but still very high. The U.S. Census…

…Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for September, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes,…

…on three times the price of an emergency diet – premiums alone exceed $12,000 yr.!). If you look at the Census, median family income is about $62,000. The real minimum…