Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 10.26.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 26th, 2018 Positives: 1. GDP came in at 3.5% for Q3, 2 tenths higher than expected 3.3%....
World’s Most Valuable Retail Brands 2018
Source: How Much Here is the short list: Top 10 Most Valuable Retail Brands 1. Amazon: $151B 2. Walmart: $61B 3. Alibaba: $55B...
Ways the GFC is Still Affecting Society
From bank bailouts to rock-bottom interest rates, the fallout influenced economics, politics and even the rise of Bitcoin over the past...
U.S. ranks 25th for men and 32nd for women when it comes to...
Source: Washington Post This is intriguing: “The desire to climb arbitrary ranking ladders seems to be an innate...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 10.19.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 19th, 2018 Positives: 1. Initial Jobless Claims came in at 210k for the week, down 5k...
Impacts of Climate Change
Cool set of graphics from CarbonBrief showing data from 70 peer-reviewed climate studies to show how global warming is projected to...
What is the Correlation Between Stocks & Housing?
According to Jonathan Miller, very little: The Stock Market Corrected, What Does It Mean For Housing? First: the stock market is not...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 10.12.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 12th, 2018 Positives: 1. Same store sales rose 6.5% w/o/w, up from previous rise of 5.7%;...
Better to be Born Rich Than Talented…
This is a fascinating graphic, and of the analysis is correct, we have radically overstated if the American Dream is alive and well in...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 10.5.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 5th, 2018 Positives: 1. Unemployment rate decreased to an astonishing 3.7% in September...