Showing posts with label US economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US economy. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

8/6/21: U.S. Investor Confidence under Biden

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 My recent comment on the Biden Administration early successes for the Euromoney:  https://www.euromoneycountryrisk.com/article/b1rqlvl15wr2...
Friday, June 26, 2020

25/6/20: America's Scariest Charts Updated

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Trump cheers today's unemployment figures... and... Week of June 13th non-seasonally adjusted new unemployment claims were revise...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

18/6/20: America's Scariest Charts Updated

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Weekly data for initial unemployment claims for the week ending June 13, 2020 is out, so here are the updated 'America's Scariest ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

11/6/20: America's Scariest Charts Updated

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The latest data on initial unemployment claims for the week ending June 6, 2020 is out today (release here:  https://oui.doleta.gov/press/...
Friday, June 5, 2020

5/6/20: "Incredible" Jobs Report Meets Reality

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Some updates on the jobs report this morning for the U.S. Political reaction: Reality bites: New initial unemployment claims las...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

26/5/20: COVID19 Impact on Travel and Consumer Demand

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Some dire numbers from Factset on changes in consumer preferences / sentiment through March-April 2020: "According to...
Friday, May 15, 2020

15/5/20: Generational Effects of Ultra Low Interest Rates

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Just because jobs are so plentiful and careers are so rewarding in terms of potential growth in life cycle income. the Millennials are rea...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

9/5/20: Some uncomfortable facts on the U.S. wealth distribution since 1989

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The distributional effects of COVID19 pandemic impact on the labour markets in the U.S. will likely result in a massive debasement of the ...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

7/5/20: No Value in Them, Stonks

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No, folks, the markets are still  not in line with fundamentals: And that applies to all three sets of fundamentals: pre-COVID19 condi...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

6/5/20: 1Q 2020 US GDP:

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From Factset: "The decrease in first-quarter real GDP was largely driven by the 7.6% decline in consumer spending, which subtracted 5...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

23/4/20: U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Heading into COVID19 Disaster

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Adding to the two scariest charts in economic history (see  https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2020/04/1942020-two-scariest-charts-in-econ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

19/4/2020: Two Scariest Charts in Economic History

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I have been posting quite a bit on U.S. unemployment and jobs destruction numbers coming from the COVID-19 pandemic. So here are two chart...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

16/4/20: Four Weeks of True Unemployment Numbers: #Covid19

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The U.S. has added 5.245 million more unemployment claims in the week ending April 11, 2020, with additional 9,000 claims added to the Apr...
Monday, April 13, 2020

13/4/20: Four Weeks of Unemployment Spikes: U.S. Jobs Losses in #Covid19

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COVID-19 social toll: according to Deutsche Bank Research, since the end of the 2008-2009 Great Recession through mid-March 2020, the U.S....
Sunday, April 5, 2020

5/4/20: Effective Corporate Tax Rates in the U.S.: 1980-2019

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Evolution of effective corporate tax rates in the U.S. from 1980 through 2019: Source: Yardeni Research, with my annotations Effecti...
Friday, February 7, 2020

7/2/20: Mapping Real Economic Debt 2019

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A neat summary map of the real economic debt as a share of the national economies, via IIF, with my addition of Ireland's benchmark re...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

7/1/20: Tax cuts, trade and growth: The Trumponomics Effect

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My article on U.S. economy and the implied risks to investors for Manning Financial and Cathedral: https://cfc.ie/2019/12/10/tax-cuts-tra...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

1/9/19: U.S. Non-Financial Corporate Sector: Stagnation in Net Value Added

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Value added by the U.S. non-financial corporates has been languishing well below the cyclical peak for some months now: In fact, since...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

8/8/19: Upbeat Jobs Reports Miss Some Real Points

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Unemployment claims down, the weekly jobs report seemed to have triggered the usual litany of positive commentary in the business media ...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

1/9/19: 'Losin Spectacularly': Trump Trade Wars and net exports

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U.S. net exports of goods and services are in a tailspin and Trump Trade Wars have been anything but 'winning' for American export...