Credit cards are one of the major ways that consumers hold debt. It can also fluctuate to a greater extent on an individual basis than would be expected from student loans, auto loans, or home... (read more)
Insured unemployment is like the regular unemployment ratio but with the benefit of having weekly releases as opposed to monthly releases for the main unemployment rate. In a time when the economic... (read more)
People filing for unemployment is a useful metric but there is another related metric that one might look for as well. That is, once people file for unemployment, how many people are still on... (read more)
Jobs are fundamental to both the stock market and GDP. If you don’t have jobs, you don’t have companies with stocks to trade. If you don’t have jobs, you aren’t producing any stuff that gets measured by... (read more)
Volume is a measurement of how much a particular stock (or index) is trading. If investors are buying and selling a lot of shares, a stock has high volume. If they aren't doing a lot of buying and... (read more)