- by New Deal democratNew jobless claims are likely to the most important weekly economic data for the next 3 to 6 months. They are going...
March 11 is the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring a pandemic and some are betting that we’re on the verge of an historic...
Hong Kong's MTR Corporation lost money last year for the first time since its listing two decades ago, posting a record deficit totalling HK$4.8 billion as...
It morally unjustifiable for tech companies to walk away from the pandemic with massive profits while schools are burdened with debt.
OTTAWA – The Conference Board of Canada has released its latest forecast of provincial economic activity and finds a broad-based recovery taking place aided by the...
- by New Deal democratSeasonally adjusted consumer prices rose 0.4% in February. As a result, over the past several months there has been a significant uptick...
The Equity-Gold Price Conundrum, Part 1: The Great Batsby Via GoldMoney Insights, The relentless rally in equity markets has pushed valuations to extreme levels based on...
Will The March Stimulus Rally Spark Larger Moves For These Penny Stocks?
Peter Schiff: The Fed Between A Rock And A Hard Place Via SchiffGold.com, The markets seem to think the Fed is going to fight inflation. They...
The New Zealand dollar has posted strong gains in the Tuesday session. Currently, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7164, up 0.60% on the day. Manufacturing, Business Confidence...
The Narrative Of Inflation Amid Depopulation Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Next to language, money is the most important medium through which modern society...
The pre-order period for the electronic book version of Modern Monetary Theory and the Recovery is now live (link to pre-order description, including table of contents)....
Here’s a couple of interesting and surprising charts, which explain what has been driving the COVID economy and why the U.S. economy is set up for...
In two Defining Ideas articles in 2009, “Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? I Am” and “Furman, Summers, and Taxes,” I criticized Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman,...
Canadian businesses are still wracked with uncertainty even as the end of the COVID-19 pandemic seemingly draws nearer, with consumer demand, cash flow and future survival...
A drop in aggregate hours in February could be an indication that productivity growth is accelerating. The establishment survey showed the economy added 379,000 jobs in...
Huge Payrolls Beat: US Adds 379K Jobs In February... But There's A Catch Heading into today's closely watched payrolls report which as we reported earlier was...
It’s not often that the head the world’s most important central bank recognizes that inflation is heating up while promising not to do much about it...
Gentlemen, if any of you are still nitpicking the validity of the “she-cession,” it’s time to stop. Avoid the gimmicky...
Another 1.2 million people applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits last week, the last week of February. This included 745,000 people who applied for regular state...
Another 1.2 million people applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits last week, the last week of February. This included 745,000 people who applied for regular state...
- by New Deal democratLast week I “pre-debunked” the idea that a lack of reporting in Texas skewed the big decline in claims, concluding that “being...
New US GDP estimates for the first quarter point to a strong acceleration in growth over last year’s Q4 increase, based on a set of recent...
Outliers can change our lives. The pesky outposts of statistical warriors are situated at the far reaches of normality. When they breach boundaries, lives change, sometimes...
In a challenging COVID-19 environment, the performance of Polen’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) holdings has led the firm to question whether these companies may offer the benefits of typical recession-resistant businesses but...
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release its latest jobs report on the state of the labor market for February 2021, exactly one...
"This Is The Best Inflation Hedge": Goldman Doubles Down On Commodity Supercycle Less than three weeks after JPM declared that a new commodity supercycle has begun,...
JPM Now Expects The US To Add 675,000 Jobs Every Month One month ago we asked whether "Powell just gave everyone the green light to just...
Canada’s economy surged into 2021 with more momentum than most expected, as companies restocked in anticipation of future demand and those Canadians left relatively unscathed by...
Guggenheim's Minerd: "Powell Has Made It Clear", 'Buy The Dip' In Bonds Authored by Scott Minerd, Global CIO, Guggenheim Investments, A Drunk Man in the Snow:...