Claims have come down but are spectacularly high historically. Chart.
Down from the peak, but higher on the week. Charts.
Sweden is now experiencing the second wave of the pandemic, and Sweden’s historical troughs of new cases have remained always higher than the troughs reached by the other Nordic states.
Hence, excess mortality in the U.S. compared to the EU27 stands at around 95-100,000 people. All killed, to a large extent, by the inadequate public health system and policy responses in the U.S.
Updating charts for the U.S. and EU27:Deaths per capita: the U.S. has overtaken the EU27 since May 18, and the trend for the U.S. continues to be worse than that for the EU27.EU27 death rate per capita has effectively flattened-out at around 303-…
During periods of elevated deeper uncertainty, any and all forecasting models run into the technical problem of risk (probabilities and impact assessments) not being representative of the true underlying environment
Eurocoin, CEPR & Banca d’Italia leading growth indicator for Euro Area economy is pointing to renewed weaknesses in the Eurozone economy in August, falling to its lowest levels in the COVID19 pandemic period:As the chart above shows, Eurocoin…
Via Liz Ann Sonders @LizAnnSonders of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. a neat chart summarizing the madness of the King Market these days:Yeah, right: PE ratio is heading for dot.com madness levels, PEG ratio (price earnings to growth ratio or growth-adj…
Watch the new wave developing in days ahead…
The pandemic is not going away. We are months before the start of the ‘normal’ flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, when temperatur