President Trump, his leadership and the economics of pandemic, aka: Trumpassery in Action
Fed QE: $12.801B Coupon Purchase 2020-07-14
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Updating charts comparing Sweden and ex-Sweden Nordic countries, normalizing population of the latter to that of Sweden:Nope, no ‘herd immunity’ in Sweden. But there is a crushed curve for new cases and deaths in the Nordics.
Russia continues to report slowly declining numbers of new cases, while official death rates are trending up:The above numbers confirm what I have been saying for some time now: relaxation of constraints in advance of the constitutional referendum vote…
While I was whitewater rafting over the weekend, the US of A has finally surpassed the EU27 in terms of overall death counts relating to COVID19 pandemic. This is without adjusting the figures for population size or pandemic onset timing, etc.So here a…
The pandemic is still in Wave 1, and this wave is still accelerating.
Self-employed workers rarely get any systemic/analytical attention from policymakers and business analysts. Despite their huge importance in modern economies. This especially applies to the current environment, impacted by COVID19, in which policy tool…
New York | We go into Q2 2020 earnings season with a combination of expectation and dread. On the one hand, we are getting more…
Fed QE: $1.732B Coupon Purchase 2020-07-13