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Shortest ever.
Last week, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finally announced the official dates for the recession that occurred in…
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The term “peak growth”…
…has become almost as popular as the comedy show Ted Lasso. Peak growth is a catchphrase with the potential…
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There was a gapers’ block …
…in financial markets last week as equity investors slowed to see what the United States Treasury bond market was up…
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The world is about halfway back to normal.
The Economist developed the Global Normalcy Index (GNI) to measure the post-pandemic return to normal. In March 2020, the GNI…
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What begins with the letter “I”?
Infrastructure is essential and sometimes taken for granted. Pipes carry drinking water to our homes, offices, and healthcare facilities, and…
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Is that a hawk?
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week. They get together eight times a year to review current…
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It’s transitory. It’s not transitory. It’s transitory. It’s not transitory.
Media analysts were plucking the inflation daisy petals last week. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer…
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Pulling the economy out of the shed.
If you’ve ever stored tools or machinery in a shed or garage for an extended period of time, you know…
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Are we at a tipping point?
One side effect of the pandemic was a collapse in demand for oil, which led to “the largest revision to…
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What do markets hate?
They hate uncertainty, and recently there has been plenty of it. Some of the questions plaguing economists and pundits include:…
