Q 4 productivity up .7%, unit labor costs jump 1.2%. CoreLogic reports home prices fell 1.4% in December to a new low, total 2011 decline is 4.7% nationally.
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KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive February 1
Stocks start the year in fine form as January comes in strong. Construction spending gains 1.5% in January. Subpoenas against 11 mystery companies for fraud?
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 30
Q 4 earnings are coming in weak. Freddie Mac bites the hand that feeds it. MF Global clients get the shaft. The regulators do nothing, Jon Corzine is free?
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 27
Q 4 GDP comes in weak at +2.8%. The CFNAI improves to -.08. Kansas City Fed Index jumps 9 points to +7. Euro zone slipping into recession, will we follow?
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 26
AG Kamela Harris declares the fraudclosure settlement inadequate because it grants immunity from prosecution, good for her. 2011 new homes sales just 302,000.
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 25
Stocks enter the final hour with modest gains on little significant news. As expected the Fed kept interest rates unchanged and more or less promised to do so through next year. That said QE 3 was played down as the Fed figures it doesn’t need to offer more stimulus besides rock bottom interest rates. Will [...]
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 24
Richmond gains 9 in January to 12. The fraudclosure settlement is out to the State’s AG’s for consideration. Another whitewash and giveaway for the banksters.
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 23
Pundits claiming that the US credit crisis is over?? Yet household debt is only down 4% and household debt service ratio is 115%, lies dam lies and statistics.
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 20
Existing home sales up 5% in December. For 2011 sales increase 1.7%, prices slip 2.5%, inventory falls to 2.38 million units. Fraudclosure scandal settlement?
KPIG Radio – The Profit Motive January 19
Santa Cruz county home prices fall more than 10% in 2011. Housing completions make a new record of 630,000 in 2011. The World Bank puts 2012 world GDP at +2.5%
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