There are more signs that the real estate market is stabilizing from the FHFA monthly house price index (HPI), which is calculated based on home sales price information from conforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages.  As Brian Wesbury et … read more >

Black diamonds are conventional vertical wells and red diamonds are horizontal wells. Just out this afternoon from the EIA: “Between 2009 and 2011, Pennsylvania’s natural gas production more than quadrupled due to expanded horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing (see … read more >

The top chart above displays annual inflation rates based on daily online retail price data collected by the Billion Prices Project @ MIT, which just released data through April 30.  According to this real-time measure of major inflation trends in … read more >

Click to enlarge. The American Gas Association has just released a study titled “Identifying Key Economic Impacts of Recent Increases in U.S. Natural Gas Production.” Parts of the Executive Summary and Conclusion appears below.    Executive Summary: The recent success … read more >

The Conference Board reported this week that its Leading Economic Indexes increased in France by 0.40% in March, in China by 0.8% in April, in Australia by 0.2% in March, and in Germany by 0.3% in March. 

From the NY Times article “Slowly, as Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs“:  “At a time of diminished state funding for higher education and uncertain federal dollars, Ohio State University president Mr. E. Gordon Gee [MP: Highest paid public-university college … read more >