Nero, Rome, burning, all the sort of historical stuff… so, behold the Trumpassery amidst Covid19… (click on the cart to read details):
Folks with pitchforks don’t care for nuance of financial wizardry. Or for econophysics of data-rich markets. They like simple, somewhat stylized facts. So here is how the world of the last 12 years looks to them:Nothing to add.
New initial claims data is out for last week, and so time to update one of my scary charts
A couple of neat snapshots for the post-COVID world came out of the two recent surveys by the Irish CSO, as summarized in the following two charts:Let me explain. We have been bombarded by ‘the future will be vastly different’ messages from all the con…
Given the amount of politicised vitriol surrounding the U.S., European, Russian, and now also Brazil data reporting, here is a snapshot of reported cases and deaths numbers for a range of countries:
Three charts on comparatives between the U.S. and the EU27 for COVID19 data:Key takeaways:U.S. now leads EU27 for 11 days and counting in terms of timing-adjusted death rates per capita of population;Even without accounting for the 7 days lag in the de…
Global numbers of new cases of COVID19 reported continues to trend on the upward trend line, with no discernible peaking:Today’s new cases counts worldwide mark a new local peak at 95,197, ranking 4th highest rate of new cases reported. Since May 15th,…
G7 is a rather exclusive club of the 7 ‘largest’ and, according to their own aspirations, most important – economically and geopolitically – economies. Except, of course, it isn’t.The latest IMF data (through 2019) and forecasts (for 2020-2021) publish…
In US and Europe daily new cases and deaths remain well above the levels when restrictions were imposed. If these levels were concerning back then, why do the higher levels today not warrant continued restrictions?