Month: December 2014

Arigato All!

12/31/2014

I want to take this opportunity to thank you all very much for your interest in my daily blog and economics. All of you enrich my life in many ways and I am profoundly grateful. I wish you and yours…

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Peculiar Percentage

12/30/2014

In 2014, the yield curve flattened considerably as long-term interest rates, like the ten–year Treasury bond, fell by about three-quarters-of-one-percentage point while short-term rates were completely unchanged. In 2015, I expect the yield curve to flatten further, but now it…

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Biker Brains

12/29/2014

Helmetless motorcyclists admitted to a hospital following an accident typically run up medical bills of greater than a million dollars, and taxpayers pay well over half the tab. The solution: where helmets are not required, force un-helmeted bikers to carry…

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Seasonal Sums

12/23/2014

Inflation, as measured by the Christmas Price Index, based on purchasing all 12 items in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” rose 1% in 2014 and now stands at $27,673. The most expensive item: seven swans-a-swimming at $7,000. Six geese-a-laying rose…

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Barrel Budgeting

12/22/2014

The Saudis export seven million bbl/day of oil, and their budget is balanced at $106/bbl. At $60/bbl, Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit is $118 billion/year: 12.7% of GDP! Saudi Arabia has foreign reserves of $750 billion to help withstand this. But…

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In this article Dr. Eisenberg offers his predictions about the health of the Tucson housing market for 2015

12/21/2014

Click here to read Dr. Eisenberg’s predictions about the health of the Tucson housing market for 2015.

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Major Mark

12/19/2014

The Friday File: 21% of Americans have at least one tattoo, up from 15% during the middle of the last decade. 26% of persons in the West have one, compared to 21% in the East and Midwest, and just 18%…

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Housing costs outstrip incomes in Colorado

12/18/2014

Click this link to read a new article featuring Dr. Eisenberg in the Denver Post.

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Hungry Households

12/18/2014

Between 2002 and 2012, real median incomes of the 16% of US households headed by someone without a high school diploma fell at an average annual rate of 2.4%. Among the 51% of households with a high school diploma but…

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Rate Realignment

12/17/2014

In her press conference today, Fed Chairwoman Yellen clearly provided the Fed with more flexibility regarding interest rates. With GDP growth firming, unemployment falling and inflation benign, Yellen is hinting at maybe earlier but probably incrementally smaller rate hikes. And…

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