ITR ECONOMICS

The Good News: Encouraging but Early Trends 1. Arguably the best news is the trend in mortgage applications for single-family home purchases....

We are living through a time when "unprecedented" is so applicable it almost sounds normal. Yet this is anything but normal. The US response to...

I learned a valuable lesson from my father-in-law 40 years ago, and it has served me well in life and in business. I hope it helps you. He...

It is time to put the noise and economic history of 2019 behind us. What matters now is how well you will perform in 2020. Changing economic...

The US and China engaged in another round of trade talks that produced little in the way of ending the trade war. The US claimed there was a...

Parts of the US economy are in recession, and more will follow. US GDP is slowing. As angst builds in corporate offices and boardrooms, we are...

One of the most discussed and most politicized pieces of economic data is the jobs report, released early in each month by the US Bureau of...