📚 What initial jobless claims measure, and why a low reading is not a strong job market
📚 How core PCE is built, and why the Fed's 2% target doesn't feel like 2% to households
📚 What new home sales measure, and how to read a number that can't say whether it rose
📚 What housing starts really measure, and why single-family versus multifamily matters more than the headline
📚 What PPI's intermediate demand stages tell you before final demand does
📚 What the ISM services PMI actually measures, and why 55.4 hides a stagflation-lite signal
📚 What housing starts actually measures, and why single-family and multifamily tell different stories
📚 The CPI number everyone quotes isn't the one the Fed is targeting
📚 June's CPI print is a case study in headline versus core inflation
🇺🇸📚 What May's US trade deficit whipsaw teaches about reading the data
