Succinct Summation of Week’s Events for 6.14.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending June 14th, 2019 Positives: 1. MBA mortgage apps rose 10.0% w/o/w, greater than previous decrease...
Retirement Plans among Pre-retirement U.S. Households
Retirement Plans among Pre-retirement U.S. Households By YiLi Chien, Research Officer and Economist, and Qiuhan Sun, Research Associate...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 6.7.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending June 7th, 2019 Positives: 1. Markets rally nearly 5% on expectations of a July Rate cut; DJIA...
The Bifurcated Economic Recovery Continues
The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress. Even after a decade of recovery, family balance sheets show that gains in security have...
US-Mexico Trade is Dominated by the Auto Industry
These charts are quite telling: Source: Torsten Sløk, Ph.D., Deutsche Bank Securities
Succinct Summations of Week’s Events 5.31.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending May 31st, 2019 Positives: 1. Despite a variety of challenges, the Economy remains resilient so...
BBRG: The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress.
The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress. Even after a decade of recovery, family balance sheets show that gains in security have...
A Geographic Perspective of Financial Distress
There is a fascinating research piece by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank: The Unequal Recovery: Measuring Financial Distress by ZIP...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 5.24.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending May 24th, 2019 Positives: 1. All things considered, this week could have been much worse than it...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 5.17.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending May 17th, 2019 Positives: 1. Market mostly recovered from Tariff postering, as US & China...