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New initial claims data is out for last week, and so time to update one of my scary charts
Governor DeSantis takes credit for Florida’s better than expected performance in the state’s numbers of COVID19 cases and deaths.
Dear Corporate America: maybe you remember the old Johnny Paycheck tune? Let me refresh your memory: take this job and shove it. Put yourself in the shoes of a single parent waiting tables in a working-class cafe with lousy tips, a worker stuck with hig…
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.
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 $1.450B Coupon Purchase 2020-05-21
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…