…well in Q3 as price helped to dampen impacts from contracting volumes.’ Though sales in one of Deere’s agriculture segments, which includes larger farm equipment, fell 25% to $5.1 billion…

…that the goods-producing part of the economy as a whole has been contracting, if only slightly. That still appears to be the case. The Bonddad Blog “A note on ISM manufacturing…

…are projected to be nonmedical expenses for administration and profit. Our review of private-plan payments suggests that over a 40-year history, the many iterations of full-risk contracting with private plans…

…Plans Beginning in January 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stopped contracting with D-SNP “look-alike” plans—non-integrated, conventional MA plans in which 80 percent or more of their enrollees were…

…Because they have no property to lose, they are taken seriously as contracting parties only by their immediate family and neighbors. People with nothing to lose are trapped in the…

…higher than one week ago. Absent hurricane distortions, this continues the general neutral trend of initial and continuing claims, forecasting a weak but not contracting economy in the next several…

…considered contracting K-12 students out to neighboring districts for the upcoming school year while retaining state funding for its students. That move was blocked by the Legislature in the final…

…distortions, this continues the general neutral trend of initial and continuing claims, forecasting a weak but not contracting economy in the next several months. To give you a graphic idea…

…category, at -2.2. With the huge caveat that these are diffusion indexes (i.e., number of companies expanding minus contracting for each datapoint), and are much more variable than the much…

…and fortunately, there is no big divergence among those: they all point to a stagnant but not meaningfully contracting jobs sector. Let me start with the number of jobs, and…