Archive for The Fed
The Too Big to Fail and The Too Small to Matter

Ironically, just when most Americans were preparing to kick off their Labor Day Weekend, we were given the alarming news that NO new net jobs were created in the month of August. Happy Labor… 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
