Industrial Production / Capacity Utilization
Industrial production increased 0.4% in March, matching consensus expectations. Utilities output rose 2.1% in March, while mining declined 1.4%. Manufacturing, […]
Industrial production increased 0.4% in March, matching consensus expectations. Utilities output rose 2.1% in March, while mining declined 1.4%. Manufacturing, […]
Housing starts declined 14.7% in March to a 1.321 million annual rate, substantially lagging the consensus expected 1.485 million. Starts […]
Retail sales rose 0.7% in March (+1.3% including revisions to prior months), beating the consensus expected gain of 0.4%. Retail […]
Many, us included, see parallels between today’s big issues and those of the 1960s and 1970s. Mistakes in both geopolitical […]
here are 7 lessons on “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin: 1. Take ownership of everything in your […]
The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.2% in March, coming in below the consensus expected +0.3%. Producer prices are up […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in March, above the consensus expected +0.3%. The CPI is up 3.5% from […]
View from the Observation Deck For today’s post, we compare the cumulative total returns of several utility and infrastructure-related indices […]
In the waning seconds of one of the most watched women’s college basketball games ever, a foul was called. The […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 303,000 in March, beating the consensus expected 214,000. Payroll gains for January and February were revised up […]
View from the Observation Deck Today’s blog post illustrates the wide disparities that often exist between the annual price performance […]
The trade deficit in goods and services came in at $68.9 billion in February, larger than the consensus expected $67.6 […]
10 Invaluable Lessons from Robert Greene’s “The Laws of Human Nature” 1. Master Self-Awareness: As humans, we often think we’re […]
