
Track the weekly initial jobless claims released every Thursday at 8:30 a.m. eastern time to gauge early unemployment trends, first-time claims, and labor market conditions.
Explore manufacturing payrolls within non-farm payrolls, showing how manufacturing hiring signals investment and future confidence amid policy boosts and a resilient economy, despite services dominating the economy.
Explore the core consumer price index year-over-year, excluding food and energy, and how core CPI informs monetary policy decisions. Understand volatility and the 2–3% target for policy impact.
Explore real earnings month-over-month from the CPI report, showing how inflation-adjusted wages impact purchasing power, consumption, and growth linked to productivity.
Analyze the U.S. S&P Global Composite PMI, merging manufacturing and services to show economic trends, recovery, and latest contraction and employment implications.
Show how excluding defense highlights ups and downs caused by aircraft, while defense orders add a stabilizing floor for manufacturing amid a broader slowdown.
Examine US durable goods orders, non defense ex aircraft, month over month to reveal the core economic momentum. Despite fluctuations, the core trend shows resilience supporting ongoing spending and jobs.
Examine gross domestic product as a monthly, quarterly indicator with three readings—preliminary, revision, final—and key indicators like real GDP, GDP price index, PC prices, and real consumer spending.
Explore how Federal Reserve data from regional banks guide economic indicators, including the Beige Book, Philly Fed surveys, and regional manufacturing outlooks.
If you are looking for one place to learn about how the economy works, this is the course for you.
The course has been designed to appeal to people with no prior knowledge of economics as well as students with intermediate and advanced knowledge.
We use economic indicators to break down individual parts of the economy and use them to understand how the entire system works.
We will talk about all the most important indicators, covering more than 100 individual indicators, with over 15 hours of on-demand videos.
The indicators are divided by the issuing source and grouped by the topic they cover.
We talk about GDP, inflation, employment, job openings, retail sales, mortgage applications, interest rates, consumer sentiment, inflation expectations, housing starts and so much more.
We do a detailed historical analysis of every indicator in the last 12 years, seeing where these indicators have been, where they are right now and where they are going in the future.
The course can be used by people who would like to learn how the economy works and use this knowledge in their everyday money making decisions.
The course can be used by students to learn about the real life numbers and better understand what they learn in theory.
The course can be used by professional investors and traders to pick up on certain patterns in economic data releases that they can exploit to make profitable trades and investments.
The course has been made with a lot of care, attention to detail and many, many hours of hard work and years of following the economy and these indicators. I hope that you will enroll and enjoy the content, learn from it and apply your new knowledge to improve your life.
As a BONUS you get lifetime access to my Discord server where we can discuss future movements in economic indicators and where the economy is headed.
See you there!