As the coronavirus crisis is wearing off in many parts of the world, supply chain troubles are increasing once more for many companies, mainly concerning the U.S. and the Eurozone. Components of the International Monetary Fund’s purchasing managers’ in…
Over the span of just five years, tech companies have taken over all of the top 8 spots of the World’s Best Employers ranking. In 2017, the first year the ranking was published by Forbes in collaboration with Statista, half of the top 8 companies were …
When it comes to the potentially devastating results of natural disasters, Oceania is the most susceptible. Not only does it show the highest median World Risk Index (WRI) figure, the place with the highest number on the index overall, Vanuatu, is also…
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At least so far, the majority of Brits haven’t been directly affected by the goods shortages caused in part by a chronic shortage in lorry drivers in the country. Nevertheless, almost a quarter report having been unable to purchase their desired non-es…
Today’s Fed QE
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.
One might anticipate that the bottom 50%’s meager share of the nation’s exploding wealth would have increased as smartly as the wealth of the billionaires, but alas, no.
As a fan of both history and finance, I cannot believe this chart was made five years ago and I had never seen it! In any case, here it is; click on it for better readability, as there is a huge amount of information.