This chart uses IMF estimates to show the countries most burdened by their national debt. Japan has by far the biggest problem, with general government gross debt at 238 percent of its GDP. In fourth place, the economic struggles of Lebanon add an extr…
Reposted with permission of Apartment List. View original post here. By: Igor Popov, Chris Salviati, and Rob Warnock For the fourth straight month, roughly one-in-three Americans failed to…
Rural states and those with large tourism industries are the first to put restrictions on all interstate visits as coronavirus case numbers continue to rise in many places in the United States. This is according to a list compiled by CNN.Hawaii, Maine,…
Macro liqudity been bullish since early July. That was no secret. We were fully informed and prepared. And it’s no secret that this balance is…
This is ridiculous. Absurd even.
1,058,547,236. Back to school season is just around the corner and that’s the number of learners who still aren’t able to attend class (as of early August) due to the pandemic. According to UNESCO, that figure represents 60.5 percent of all learners wo…
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.
Fed QE: $1.732B Coupon Purchase 2020-08-06
There’s already doubt given how the two major series supposedly measuring the same thing seemingly can’t agree. If the rebound was truly robust, it would show up unambiguously everywhere. But IHS Markit’s purchasing managers indices struggled to get back above 50 in July, barely getting there, suggesting the economy might be slowing or even stalling […]
The abundance of open gaps is one of the many technical issues that give pause about the eventual sustainability of this historic liquidity driven rally.