Monday, April 19, 2021

19/4/21: COVID19: BRIICS

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BRIICS are now in a fully-developed Wave 4 of the pandemic, like much of the rest of the world. This is confirmed across both new case numbe...

19/4/21: COVID19: Most impacted countries

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  Updated tables for world's most impacted countries and regions below. Starting with the countries with the highest recognized levels o...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

17/4/21: COVID19: Europe and EU27

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  Looking at Europe and EU27 data for Covid19 pandemic through Week 14 of 2021 (week ending Thursday, April 15): Since Week 7, the EU27 are ...

17/4/21: COVID19: Worldwide Data

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  Despite the ongoing efforts to accelerate vaccinations, we can now, sadly, confirm that globally, we are in the fourth wave of the pandemi...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

17/4/21: Collapsing Labor Force Participation: A Secular Trend

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  For those of you following this blog this would be a familiar sight: I have been worrying about the underlying structure of the U.S. labor...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

14/4/21: The share of those in unemployment > 27 weeks is rising

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  One way to look at the state of the real (as opposed to financialized and corporate-value focused) economy is to look at unemployment. And...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

8/4/21: BRIC Composite PMIs 1Q 2021: A Mixed Bag for Recovery Votes

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  I covered BRIC Manufacturing PMIs for 1Q 2021 ( https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2021/04/5421-brics-manufacturing-pmis-1q-2021.html ) an...

8/4/21: BRIC Services PMI 1Q 2021: Slowing Growth Momentum

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 Earlier this week, I posted on the latest PMI reports for BRIC economies for Manufacturing sector ( https://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2021...

8/4/21: No Inflation Cometh?

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  Having written about strengthening signals of rising inflation globally and in the U.S. in particular before, here is today's note fro...
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

7/4/21: Ireland PMIs for March: Growth and Inflation Pressures

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  Ireland PMIs for 1Q 2021 are out this week, so let's take a closer look at monthly activity data.  March services PMI came in at a sur...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

6/4/21: Edelman Trust Barometer: the Age of Cognitive Dissonance?

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Some shocking, genuinely shocking data from the Edelman Global Trust Barometer for 2021. Let's take a look.  Start with this:  Welcome t...

5/4/21: Heating up inflationary risks

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  No, hyperinflation and, in fact, high inflation, ain't coming, yet. But the concerns with both are rising...  Both, input prices and o...