Insights

July 14, 2024 INFLATION RATE EASES A BIT MORE:  The Consumer Price Index for June declined 0.1%. Over the last twelve months, the rate of...

July 7, 2024 LABOR MARKET STEADILY MOVING AHEAD BY MOVING BACK TO 2021:  The U.S. economy added a net 206,000 new jobs last month. The...

July 1, 2024 FED'S PREFERRED INFLATION GAUGE DECREASES:  The Fed prefers to watch the PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) Price...

June 24, 2024 AI OPTIMISM CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY: The S&P 500 is what is called "cap-weighted." What this means is that the size of...

June 17, 2024 DOES JEROME POWELL READ MACGRAY MATTER?: Last week, MacGray Matter included a longer-than-usual entry about anomalies in...

June 10, 2024 INTEREST RATES LOWERED...IN EUROPE:  The European Central Bank cut interest rates last week for the first time in five...

June 3, 2024 FIRST QUARTER GROWTH RATE REVISED:  Earlier, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that the U.S. economy grew...

May 27, 2024 HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!: We get a three day weekend thanks to those who served the U.S. in the armed forces and are no longer...

May 20, 2024 APRIL INFLATION NUMBERS:  After a few months of discouraging inflation data, April provided some relief. The Consumer Price...