Mark J. Perry
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Ethanol Now Consumes More Than 50% of U.S. Corn
Financial Times — “U.S. ethanol refiners are consuming more domestic corn than livestock and poultry farmers for the first time, underscoring how a... Read »
Excluding Distressed Home Sales, CoreLogic Index Shows That Home Prices Are Increasing in 20 States
The company CoreLogic calculates and reports a monthly home price index (HPI), similar to the Case-Shiller Home Price index, and is being featured on CD for the... Read »
NY Fed Model: 1-in-167 Chance of 2012 Double-Dip
The New York Federal Reserve recently updated its “Probability of U.S. Recession Predicted by Treasury Spread” with treasury yield data through May... Read »
Will Apple’s Profits Be Investigated Next?
I wouldn’t want to give Obama or Congress any ideas, but in the first quarter of 2011, Apple (AAPL) was more profitable than ExxonMobil based based on both... Read »
The “Decline or Demise” of U.S. Farming?
In this post on manufacturing’s declining share of GDP for both the U.S. and global economies, Scott Grannis writes: “In this same vein, I would add... Read »
Global Economy’s Remarkable Recovery
The CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis released its monthly report today on world trade and world industrial production for the month of February.... Read »
Producer Price Food Inflation: Crude (High and Volatile) vs. Consumer Goods (Low and Stable)
The chart above shows the annual inflation rates for: a) crude foodstuffs and feedstuffs (e.g. wheat, corn, animals for slaughter, peanuts, cottonseed, and soybeans),... Read »
Financial Stress Index Back to Oct. 2007 Level
The St. Louis Federal Reserve updated its Financial Stress Index yesterday for the week ending April 8, see chart above (data here). This index measure of the... Read »
10-Year History of PPI Inflation Update
Based on today’s PPI report from the BLS, the charts above are updated from last month’s CD post on producer price inflation where I suggested that... Read »
How Shale Gas Snuck Up on the Beltway Elites and How Politics Could Disrupt the Success Story
AEI’s Steve Hayward has an excellent article on “The Gas Revolution” in the Weekly Standard, here are some key paragraphs: “One remarkable... Read »







