…YoY: In essence, inflation at this point is primarily a function of the fictitious and lagging measure of housing that is used by the Census Bureau (even though the house…

…presentation of the data disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, who saw it while looking through a government report. The graphic made demographic change look like a zero-sum…

…to U.S. Census of Agriculture data. We’ve also lost approximately 1,200 cow-calf producers and backgrounders each year. “Rushing” into legislation? While we continue to hem and haw over whether or…

…the steady aging of the population giving a better explanation. This is the same argument Republicans were using in 2010. To my knowledge (and if you have other detail), the…

…last week, showing COVID particles at or near 6 month lows both nationwide: and in all 4 Census regions: As expected, the CDC’s variant update last Friday showed that BA.5…

…is used by the Census Bureau continues to misrepresent the true picture. To repeat how I closed this report last month, in hiking rates, the Fed is chasing a phantom…

…not just nationally but in every Census region, especially the Northeast (yellow in the graph below) but the West (green), where the increase is slower: The data is consistent with…

…2010, particularly in regions that were already experiencing below-average birth rates while simultaneously losing population to out-migration. Starved of students and the tuition revenue they bring, small private colleges in New…

…QCEW (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages):  The late Jeff Miller, a portfolio manager who was extremely popular at Seeking Alpha, and was previously a college professor who taught public policy…

…(vs. the original 632,000) in October. Here’s what the past year looks like (FRED hasn’t updated, so here’s the Census Bureau’s graph): The preliminary read for November is the highest…