…subindex rose 0.7 to 47.1. Here is a look at both the total index (blue) and new orders subindex (god) for the past fifteen years (via Briefing.com): Note that both…

…in the employment report are all in the goods-producing sector. To wit, below is a graph of employment in manufacturing (gold), total construction (red), residential building construction (orange) and goods-producing…

…total, there are 15 chronic conditions for which C-SNPs can be offered, focusing on conditions that are substantially disabling or ones that place individuals at high risk of hospitalization or…

…in a row, meaning they are down -0.1% in total since July: While this is a slight negative, as you can see from the above graph it is well within…

…here is the 12 month rolling average of total vehicle miles traveled for the past 50+ years in absolute terms: [I am having a problem with Google giving me access…

…of 121,000. Government jobs declined -157,000 in October (these are mainly the delayed DOGE layoffs), and another -5,000 in November for a total loss of -162,000. September was revised downward…

…the average monthly effective tariff rate was 7.9%. The rate shows how much the US collects in customs duties as a percentage of the total value of imported goods. However,…

…benefits of immigration could be much less or even turn negative. As background, one must understand the truly massive scale of the U.S. welfare state. Total welfare state spending in…

…construction spending in November and December.  For the month of December, nominally total construction spending (blue, left scale in the graph below) rose 0.3%, although it remains below its recent…

…1 billion packages through USPS last year, roughly 15% of the agency’s total volume. A two-thirds reduction could strip USPS of billions in revenue amid those concerns of insolvency. USPS…