Archive for government stats
Interpreting The Head-Scratching Unemployment Claims Data
Adapted from The Wall Street Examiner. Actual, not seasonally adjusted, initial unemployment claims totaled 319,349 last week, according to the Department of Labor tabulation of weekly data… Read more
Consumer Metrics Institute News: August 26, 2011 – BEA Lowers Second Quarter GDP Growth Rate to Below 1%
Contributed by the Consumer Metrics Institute. The Bureau of Economic Analysis’s (BEA) second estimate of second quarter 2011 U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was reported to be 0.98%, continuing… Read more
Rates Way Down, Apps Way Up… That’s Good, Right?
Last week mortgage applications rose a whopping 21.7% from the previous week according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey. Great news for the industry… Read more
BEA Reports 1Q-2011 and “Great Recession” Far Worse Than We Had Been Previously Told
Contributed by the Consumer Metrics Institute Included in the BEA’s first (“Advance”) estimate of second quarter 2011 GDP were significant downward revisions to previously published data, some… Read more
