Archive for August 2010

We are back to the mortgage roller coaster as VERY weak housing sales numbers came out pushing rates back down against the floor that we have been unable to break through.  Then, better than expected Gross Domestic Product numbers, and the Fed’s comments indicating they are not going to support lower mortgage rates through further…

Here are just a few places that I know or think might be fun places to visit while in Oklahoma or even if you have lived here for years. We all might as well enjoy what we have! The Oklahoma City Zoo, http://www.okczoo.com/ The Gilcrease Musuem in Tulsa, OK – #918-596-2700, http://gilcrease.utulsa.edu/ The Oklahoma City…

The Quote Garden has a number of back to school quotes. Here are a couple of quotes that I thought were either funny or completely true. I believe we all can relate or agree to at least one of these quotes! The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great…

A week jobs report and a less than glowing leading indicator report from the Philadelphia Fed continues to underscore the weakness in our economy.  Also, state and local governments project more  job losses as they firm up budgets for the coming year.  In the slow month of August, nothing is surfacing to tell us that…

This week the BUZZ  is all about ‘deflation’: Will it come? What will happen?  While the directors at the Fed agree that the economy will remain week for a while, they are split on the deflation issue. This week, the core CPI came in positive but just barely, underscoring why there’s disagreement. So, what does…