Following up on my posts about the economy, today the Labor Department released its employment survey. The news sent Wall Street into a nose dive. The economy actually shed jobs last month and therefore brought to an end the growth we have had since the past four years. Here is the report via the New […]

Now that I’ve taken to reporting this kind of stuff to you: pending home sales plunged last month. Here’s the MarketWatch story: July pending home sales index falls 12.2%, Realtors report Pending sales are those where a contract has been signed but not completed: the “closing” hasn’t taken place. The only way to read this […]