…to the illusion of accurate monthly data. But imagine for the moment that there had been no adjustment before the January data release. The headline number for January might well…

…make sense of the White House in the early and mid-1970s). Tune in tomorrow, after the positive but not thrilling Non-Farm Payoll release. Meanwhile: Buce continues the discussion started by…

…only(capital, consumer, intermediate, durable, and nondurable). However, I look at the origination of orders by region: domestic, non-domestic extra-euro (which is the same as non-domestic for the Euro area as…

…weeks. I hope that I can again resume regular blogging now, but do apologize for the absence. The IRS recently released its 2010 Data Book, which describes the agency’s activities…

…kill a bad program. No wonder DoD cannot pass an audit. I have a note on my calendar to look for the March 2011 release to see if anything is…

…NYTimes, Feb. 4, 2010. Sullivan runs through the ways that it has become riskier to hide accounts, as Wikileaks now has indicated that it plans a release of additional names…

…on Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist buddies in Lebanon, to release American hostages. (Hezbollah, not incidentally, is thought to be the group responsible for the 1983 U.S. barracks bombings in Lebanon, in…

…Eurostat press release, The euro area1 (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.1% in November 2010, unchanged compared with October4. It was 9.9% in November 2009. The EU271 unemployment rate was…

…indicator of bond yields and inflation. The employment release reported that the employment diffusion index rebounded to 60.0 in December and this may be a leading indicator of improved employment….

With the release of the November data on real personal consumption expenditures it looks like real PCE growth in the fourth quarter will be over 4% (SAAR) as compared to…