Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 8.31.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending August 31st, 2018 Positives: 1. Q2 GDP was revised to a 4.2% annualized rate, 2 tenths higher...
Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions
Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions Michael D. Bauer and Thomas M. Mertens FRBSF Economic Letter, August 27, 2018...
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Or Not So Much.
@TBPInvictus here: Trump’s fond of talking about jobs, jobs, jobs, and how they’re “pouring” back into the...
Car Brands: Oldest & Youngest Buyers
This is surprisingly interesting: The type of car we need (or want) can vary dramatically based on our stage of life. We used our data to...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 8.24.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending August 24th, 2018 Positives: 1. Jobless claims fell to 210k w/o/w, down from previous week’s...
How Does 2008-09 GFC Fit Into Economics?
A group of students at Manchester University in northwest England registered their acute dissatisfaction with the failure of the...
John Oliver on Trade
Donald Trump is waging a trade war that hurts a lot of American workers. Maybe he would understand that if our heavy-handed documentaries...
Economic Opinions Depend Largely on Party
Source: New York Times Surprise! Partisan politics confuses some peoples’ ability to make objective assessments of...
Gig Economy is Shrinking
Torsten Sløk was our MIB guest this week; here is a recent chart of his worth sharing: Source: Torsten Sløk, Ph.D., Deutsche Bank...