Family Budget: How to go Broke on $100,000 a year. Why the Middle Class has a hard time Living in Expensive Urban Areas.
One of the challenges during this economic crisis is budgeting. As much as we hear about the housing collapse or the stock market seesawing like a playground, we rarely get a glimpse into the actual budget of real live Americans. Sure we know housing is expensive. We all intuitively knew that $147 a barrel oil […]
The Menace that is Deflation: 5 Specific Areas Where Deflation is Already Showing up.
Be very afraid of the “D” word now making the rounds in economic circles. Today the Federal Reserve hinted that we are now tipping into the prospect of deflation. This is very bad from their perspective. In fact, it is a horrifying prospect for the Federal Reserve since every action they have taken in this […]
Bear Market Rallies: Beware the Siren Call of Volatile Economic Markets.
It is understandable after the record fall of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from a peak of slightly over 14,000 in August of 2007 to a low reached last month of slightly over 8,000 that many are eager to search for a bottom. It is a tempting path to follow especially when the market is […]
The October 2008 Job Report: Digging Deeper into the Data. True Unemployment Rate at 11.8%.
Trying to explain the unemployment rate is a challenge since there are many nuances to look out for. For example, today the unemployment rate came out at 6.5%, the highest since March of 1994. That would be troubling in itself. What was also released in the report is a horrible number of 240,000 jobs being […]