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Trade

24% Goods-Deficit Drop vs “$314B Record” Exports—But No Overall Balance

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Housing

House Prices “Rose” 0.1% in January—But Momentum Cooled as December Was Revised Up to 0.3% and YoY Slipped to 1.6%

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Fed

Tight Credit, Loose Narrative: March 31 Release Hangs on a 9% Q3 2025 Tightening While Nudging for Lower Rates

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Employment

178,000 Jobs, “Little Net Change”: The April 3 Jobs Release Buries Slack in Plain Sight

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Trade

Gold-Plated Exports, Real-World Deficit: February Trade Gap Widens to $57.3B Despite 54.8% YTD “Improvement”

On April 2, 2026, the latest trade report delivered a paradox: the February deficit widened to **$57.3 billion** (from a revised **$54.7 billion** in January), even as the headline narrative leaned...

Employment

Claims Fall to 202k, But Continuing Claims Jump 25k: April 2, 2026 Release Leans on Smoothing

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Consumer

Retail Sales Up 0.6%, But the April 21, 2026 Release Trips Over Its Own Footnotes

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Manufacturing

PMI Says “Expansion,” Prices Say “Watch Your Back”: March at 52.7, Prices Spike to 78.3

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Inflation

CPI, PPI, PCE Price Signals

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Employment

Jobs, Claims, and Labor Dynamics

37 posts

Fed

Central Bank's Next Move

38 posts

GDP

Economic Growth Scorecard

9 posts

Manufacturing

ISM, Durables, and Factory Output

16 posts

Consumer

Retail Sales and Sentiment

8 posts

Housing

Starts, Sales, and Market Pulse

14 posts

Trade

Global Trade Flows and Policy

8 posts

Banking

Bank Lending and Credit Health

2 posts