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Economics / austerity, CoreLogic, home prices, ISM Index /

Better News

March 5, 2013

Yes. Aside from the distraction of the sequester lunacy there is an actual economy to concern us. Today’s reports are decent, so they are worth mentioning. According to CoreLogic, a research firm, home prices rose 0.7% in January bringing the gain over the past year to 9.7%. That’s the fastest one year rate of growth […]

Economics / austerity, debt ceiling, government spending, Obama, Republicans, Simpson-Bowles /

Sequester – Now What?

March 4, 2013

If you’re like me and think that the economy neither needs, nor can stomach, government spending cuts reading the media frenzy over the sequester has a distinctly surrealistic air. What on earth are we to make of the entire episode? Instead of substantial analysis all we seem to get from the media is a stream […]

Commentary, Economics / austerity, GDP, government spending, Obama, Republicans /

Sequester Day

March 1, 2013

Well here we are. And there we go. I doubt many of us really imagined that there would be a sudden out break of sanity in Washington. We haven’t ben disappointed. The war raging down there has produced another epic failure. It looks as if the sequester will go into effect. So what happens now? […]

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