…a barrel as a weaker dollar supported prices by making oil cheaper for holders of other currencies. Oil prices continued higher early Tuesday, hitting a one month high of $64.30​,​…

Existing vs. new home sales: sales have peaked, expect prices to soon peak I normally don’t pay much attention to existing home sales. Even though they constitute about 90% of…

Farmer – Economist Michael Smith talks crop prices, Will History Repeat Itself?, AG WEB Farm Journal, Jerry Gulke High crop prices, like much what is going on in the greater…

…compare house prices measured by the FHFA house price index and the Case Shiller national index, deflated by median household income (dark and light blue) and by average hourly wages…

…with recent declines in the prices of shipping transport and industrial metals. If these are indeed the peak prices from the supply bottleneck, than producer prices should ease from here….

…of the Mississippi Feed prices are up 7% from just a few months ago, and likely to continue to rise further Transport prices have shot up due to increase in…

…house prices: the FHFA purchase index (blue), the Case Shiller national index (red), the Census Bureau’s measure of median prices for new houses (gold), and the NAR’s measure of median…

July personal income and spending: more modestly good fallout from lower gas prices There was more good fallout from the recent decline in gas prices in today’s July report on…

…the price goes up even more. We see it in stock markets. Problem is, bubbles burst/markets crash. Like a runaway team of horses, almost anything, real or imagined, can set…

…prices also probably peaked. Summarizing the four measures of house prices, median prices of both new and existing homes appear to have peaked this summer. The FHFA Index suggests a…