Some updates from the US Labour Markets to our America’s Scariest Charts series today.First, headline official Non-Farm Payrolls data for the month of June 2020 is out today. Here is the visual:Total Non-Farm Payrolls dropped during the COVID19 pandemi…
Updating charts for data through today’s ECDC release:Global cases (above) are at an all-time high, global deaths are trending up (below).Rates of growth, smoothed, confirm the above:
Despite improving PMIs in all BRIC economies through June 2020, quarterly readings remains deeply recessionary
U.S. dynamics behave distinctly from every other advanced economy, and not in a good way.
New cases and deaths updated. All commentary in the charts (click to enlarge).Adding a new graph to collection: this looks at smoothed-trends in both deaths and counts of new cases:
Some really good mapping in terms of financial exposures/risk and COVID19 vulnerabilities within the U.S. small and medium enterprises sectors, via McKinsey & Co:Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/americas/which-small-businesse…
Monetary authorities are underwriting government and private corporate debt for larger companies, starving out smaller ones.
Continued deterioration in May.
The U.S. is now a case-study on how not to do public health response. …
There is no good news.