Succinct Summations for the Week 4.17.20
Succinct Summations for the week ending April 17th, 2020 Positives: 1. Markets rallied for the second straight week; Progress is being...
Succinct Summations of Week’s Events, 4.10.11
Succinct Summations for the week ending April 10th, 2020 Positives: 1. Markets rally, making up half of the February/March 35% collapse....
Freakonomics: What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat
Source: Freakonomics Covid-19 has shocked our food-supply system like nothing in modern history. We examine the winners,...
Quarantine Activities
Source: Visual Capitalist Visual Capitalist: Global Web Index found that over 80% of consumers in the U.S. and UK say they...
Recessions, Bear Markets Need Time to Develop
Is this a Dead Cat Bounce or End of the Bear market? My method for understanding which is admittedly peculiar: I concoct a novel, often...
Succinct Summations for the Week 3.27.20
Succinct Summations for the week ending March 27th, 2020 Positives: 1. We have a $2 trillion stimulus plan deal; markets rally; 2....
Expected U.S. Macroeconomic Performance during the Pandemic...
Expected U.S. Macroeconomic Performance during the Pandemic Adjustment Period By James Bullard, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 3.20.20
Succinct Summations for the week ending March 20th, 2020 Positives: 1. Looks like a trillion dollar stimulus package is coming next week....
What the Market Is Saying About the Economy
What the Dow’s 28% (Update 32%) Crash Tells Us About the Economy Source: Bloomberg (Note: I added line breaking Dow $20k to reflect...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 3.13.20
Succinct Summations for the week ending March 13th, 2020 Positives: 1. All things considered, it could have been much worse this week....