The Fed stops updating it just as its growth accelerates. What´s going on?🤔 pic.twitter.com/oSq284MLKF — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) February 26, 2021 The US broad money supply is now up $4
by Shaun Richards The credit crunch put many economic measures under strain as their limitations were exposed. Now the Covid-19 pandemic has broken several of them. In fact one is
For Q1 2021, Twitter said it expects total revenue to be between $940 million and $1.04 billion, and operating income to be between a loss of $50 million and break
by confoundedinterest17 The Q4 2020 home price numbers are out from the NAR. The big winners in terms of home price growth? Bridgeport/Stamford CT at 39% YoY and Atlantic City NJ at
Here is the top 10 from the emerging market ETF. There is good growth stocks and there are crazy growth stocks. A bit for each taste, enjoy the discussion as
French presidential candidates are making the topic of birthrates a campaign issue for next year’s election after a report revealed 2020 had one of the lowest numbers of births since
By Tsvetana Paraskova OPEC+ expects global oil demand to rise by 5.6 million barrels per day (bpd) this year—lower estimated growth than OPEC’s assessment of 5.9-million-bpd demand increase from less
by Lance Roberts As we head into 2021, there is a large consensus that the massive monetary interventions in 2020 will lead to an explosion of economic growth, inflation, and
by confoundedinterest17 According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast, US GDP forecast for Q4 is 7.541%. This combined with elevated U-3 unemployment (6.7% thanks to state and local government shutdowns) and
by Shaun Richards As we look at the UK economy some numbers are drivers and others are followers. Or as the Frenchman puts it in the Matrix series of films
68% of manufacturing sectors were in contraction in December. This is still the beginning of the cyclical recovery. (h/t) @GregDaco pic.twitter.com/9xiG3rjeiT — UPFINA (@UPFINAcom) January 22, 2021
by Frank Shostak via Mises For most experts a key factor that policymakers should be watching is the ratio between actual real output and potential real output. The potential output is the maximum
by Daniel Lacalle via Mises I remember that in 2009 three messages were constantly repeated: “In this crisis measures are different, because governments are investing in the recovery by increasing public spending,” “the
by Shaun Richards Let me welcome you to 2021 as the main financial trading year catches up with the calendar one. It is a time of year to mull whether
Why central banks cannot normalize, even in growth periods. – Monetary policy incentivises unproductive debt.– Debt to GDP rises in crisis and growth periods.– Even the smallest rate increase generates
by Shaun Richards Today reminds me of the article I wrote on the second of April where I was worried about the spectre of mass unemployment. It turns out that