via Jill Mislinski Today the Institute for Supply Management published its monthly Manufacturing Reportfor December. The latest headline Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) was 59.7 percent, an increase of 1.5 percent from 58.2
by WARREN MOSLER Highlights Optimism among small business owners is surging, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), whose Small Business Optimism Index rose 3.7 points in November to
Fed is in trouble It wants to cool financial markets and the economy but can’t control financial conditions – @ Johnny Bo Jakobsen? ECB warns of possible global market
North American yield curves are narrowing further today, now with less than .5% between the 10- and 2-year Treasury yield in Canada, and less than .70% in the US. Both
by ReadMurrayBookchin The Great Recession of 2008 has never really ended – it has just been postponed. Since 2008, the world’s major central banks – the Fed, ECB, and BoJ –
Stock prices – the highest US stock prices ever apart from 1 week in 2000 Debt – the most ever by a huge margin (compared even to 2007), especially in