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...
Ten Years Later—Did QE Work?
Ten Years Later—Did QE Work? by Stephan Luck and Tom Zimmerman Liberty Street Economics, May 08, 2019 By November...
Falling US Birth Rates
I have never been in the camp that believes Demographics drive everything. Harry Dent and others have long argued this is the primary...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events for 5.10.19
Succinct Summations for the week ending May 10th, 2019 Positives: 1. Uber manages to IPO without incident, despite lots of market...
Economic Security & Insecurity
There was a fascinating Gallup survey last month about Americans’ optimism about their personal finances. Go read the whole thing;...