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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Fed Chair Powell - [image: Mortgage Rates] Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: • At 8:30 AM ET, The *initial weekly ...
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Dollar Death $piral

Dr. Strange Move or How I Learned to Love the Bill - After a couple of years of disinflation, the Fed changed directions and started lowering rates. By most measures, the economy had been humming along near a...
6 days ago
Retirement Blues

NVIDIA Revisited - On August 26, 2023, 5 days before it a new closing hi at 493.55, I wrote a critical post about NVDA - the stock, not the company. After that, the stoc...
10 months ago
Exurban Nation

Hawaii 2022 -
1 year ago
Mish Talk - Global Economic Trend Analysis

Think There's a Strong Labor Market? Then Think Again - The economy is adding more workers, but they are working much fewer hours on average. Average Weekly Hours 2019-Present Across the board, people are work...
1 year ago
Young Money

Stay away from popular tech stocks, part II - Last August, I wrote a blog post arguing that largest technology and internet companies -- Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft -- would never grow i...
3 years ago
MaxedOutMama

Updating the HF Indicators - I posted this over on Seeking Alpha. Not much good seems to be happening, and I am concerned about the low pace of construction and a likely end to the sho...
4 years ago
Economic Disconnect

Yes, Well, It's Still a Friday Night - I doubt anyone is still reading the old stuff, but I have a quiet Friday night and figured, why not a Friday Night Rock Blog? I found this one recently (...
4 years ago

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Friday, May 1, 2015

The Onion: Handmade Wicker Car Seat

Who says you have to sacrifice style for safety? Hahaha!!

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