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Some feel the economy is not moving forward as was thought, but it's hard to argue against some of the data that just keeps coming out; like jobless claims for example.

The US government owns Citibank and the government should close down the behemoth's highly corrupt research team that purely manipulates stocks.

The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 5.14% this week according to data from Freddie Mac. That's higher than the 5.10% rate at this time last year.

The municipal bond insurance market took a beating during the financial crisis, virtually disappearing. Now the question everyone is asking is, do we need it?

It is tough to keep up with the market and all the news that gets released each week, even for the professionals. Every month we are given economic data in the form of indicators and these indicators help get a read on the econoomy.

In order to understand the AIG debacle or any other possible seizure or bailout of an insurance company, it is important to understand the inner-workings of the insurance industry.

The rate of decline has declined, but it has still declined. Or, put another way, housing prices are still declining on a year-to-year basis, but that rate of decline has slowed.

Savings and CD rates continue their slow glide to oblivion while 30-year mortgage rates climbed above 5% for the first time since October.

Every now and then the mainstream media will do an article on the hatchet job that the Fed has done on the savers of this country. Today they printed one such article.

Today was a full day of news of the economy, but not a lot of changes in the bond markets.