retail

The results from this past Thanksgiving weekend retail shopping blitz are in and consumer spending at real brick-and-mortar stores is barely up from a year ago. Henry Blodget and Aaron Task discuss what these numbers tell us.

This post has links on retail-related articles from around the web plus a lot more coverage on the European Sovereign debt crisis. Other topics include Wikileaks, QE and foreclosures.

Here is the daily links post with more of a Black Friday retail theme to it. So far, I have only heard god things about sales.

A cross post by Rick Bookstaber which originally appeared on his blog. My last post posited a future world where technology-driven production and consumption lead to a secular drop in demand, and with it a drop in employment, resulting in…

I caught this at the bottom of Andy Lees' morning note: China – To limit inflation China will impose price controls on food according to the NDRC, and will severely punish anyone found speculating on corn or cotton. “The policies that…

The Fed, for whatever reason, has induced a shift in private portfolio preferences simply by talking about something.  But I think the point commentators like the Pragmatic Capitalist make is indisputably correct.  The policy…

The BBC's economics editor Stephanie Flanders released this nice little 3-minute video which explains why the so-called currency wars are something you should care about. For me, it is quite significant that South Korea of all countries,…

I am on-board with Roach's sentiments. This is certainly what I take away from the U.S. policy mix. Now, a lot of economists of the Keynesian variety are telling us that the problems in the US are cyclical i.e. an aggregate demand (AD)…

Early in the year, I posted a few times on a coming wave of mortgage defaults generally and the economic effect of living in defaulted accommodation specifically. My conclusion at the time was that, while the consumer spending due to the…

by Annaly Capital Management Thursday’s third quarter GDP release provides a ton of fodder for the data dorks among us. There will be more to follow on this in the October monthly commentary, but today we’ll look at just one of the…