27 November 2024

It's Thursday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On Wednesday


Claims


Various Inflation Numbers


Durable Goods
The stats are coming out a day earlt because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

So initial unemployment claims fell by 2,000 to 213,000, beating estimates while continuing claims rose by 9,000 to 1.907 million.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Meanwhile, the updated US GDP growth rate was a 2.8% annual rate, which is a pretty good growth rate, and durable goods orders rose by .2% month over month.

One does wonder if the durable goods number is an artifact of people trying to beat tariffs.

My gut says that this economy feels a lot like mid 2000, before the DotCom bubble burst.

The only question is which group of hyper-leveraged gonifs are going to bring down the whole house of cards and get a bailout while the rest of us get stern lectures about personal responsability.

0 comments :

Post a Comment