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Home Price Regression, Two Economists and Two Road Trips
Episode 160
According to Federal Reserve data, the median sales price of homes sold peaked in the final quarter of 2022, reaching $479,000 before rising mortgage…
2 years, 8 months ago
Inflation Breakdown and How to Interview for a Job
Episode 159
Goldman Sachs has embraced a new plan to avoid a third straight quarter of disappointing investors on earnings day. Breaking with its own long-standi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Interest Rates, Yield Curve, The Banks, Outies & Conspiracies
Episode 158
There is good news on inflation in store for Americans. The Labor Department is expected to report that overall inflation fell to about 3% in June, t…
2 years, 8 months ago
BS Jobs Report, Bankruptcies, and Haroon Ends The Show
Episode 157
The Commerce Department is reporting that the US economy expanded at a much faster pace in the first three months of the year than previously estimat…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Special 4th of July Episode
Episode 156
Millions of Americans will have to prepare to repay the entire balance of their student debt now that the Supreme Court has overturned President Bide…
2 years, 9 months ago
GDP Revised, Trillians of M&A & Don't Be a Richard
Episode 155
The U.S. economy showed much stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter than previously thought, according to a big upward revision Thursday …
2 years, 9 months ago
San Francisco Needs Batman, Return To Office & Home Sales
Episode 154
In New York and London, owners of office towers are walking away from their debt rather than pouring good money after bad. The landlords of downtown …
2 years, 9 months ago
Titanic Tragedy, Jerome Powell is Grilled & The Data Is Talking
Episode 153
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has affirmed that more interest rate increases are likely ahead until additional progress is made on bringing down inflati…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dr. Doom's Ridiculous Glasses, MJ v. Prince and Why Economists are Late
Episode 152
US Federal Reserve officials struck a hawkish tone in their first comments since the central bank held the policy interest rate steady at its meeting…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jerome Powell is Skipping, Inflation and CEO to DJ
Episode 151
The stock market is growing more optimistic about US regional banks, but the lenders still face serious pressure. A credit "contraction is invariably…
2 years, 9 months ago