The Economic Indicator Handbook

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Acknowledgments ix About the Author xi CHAPTER 1 The Daily Blotter 1 CHAPTER 2 The Business Cycle 17 CHAPTER 3 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 37 CHAPTER 4 The Labor Market and Employment 69 CHAPTER 5 Retail Sales 105 CHAPTER 6 National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) Small Business Economic Trends 133 CHAPTER 7 Personal Income and Outlays 157 CHAPTER 8 Housing and Construction 183 CHAPTER 9 Manufacturing 207 CHAPTER 10 Prices and Inflation 237 CHAPTER 11 Confidence and Sentiment 263 CHAPTER 12 The Federal Reserve 291 Sources and Additional Reading 321 Index 327

About the Author

RICHARD YAMARONE is a Bloomberg Senior Economist with more than three decades of experience with monetary and fiscal policy, economic indicators, fixed income, commodities, and general macroeconomic conditions. He is creator of the Bloomberg Orange Book as well as author of Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators. During his career, he has received numerous accolades for his work, including landing on USA Today's top-ten list of economists and being named "Nostradamus of the Financial Industry" by Bank Advisor for predicting the financial crisis.

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