Maybe you heard and maybe you didn’t, but Goldman’s got themselves some trade ideas for 2018 they want to tell you about, ok?
Category: economy
Oxy, Xbox, Prison: 3 Reasons Young Men Aren’t Working In America
… but the far more important question is whether any of the three explanations posited above have any merit. Because if they do, we are in deep shit as a society.
It’s The Oil, Stupid.
“There is no puzzle.”
Booms Don’t Die Of Old Age, They Are ‘Murdered’ By The Fed
“So when you ask what the big risk is, the answer is”…
A Truly Taxing Day.
Thursday, bloody Thursday.
Albert Edwards: You Are Going To Be ‘Mighty Pissed’ When Your Wealth ‘Evaporates Before Your Very Eyes’
“The risk is that the market is hugely vulnerable if it hears a distant bark, let alone feels its bite.”
Dollar, Yields Retrace Jobs Dip On Super-Awesome ISM Print
Now that’s more “bigly.”
Super Mario: Full Week Ahead Preview
As usual, the docket is full and the risks are multiplying.
‘Good Luck Out There’: Full Week Ahead Preview
Oh, boy. Try to wrap your head around all of this.
What Andy Warhol Can Teach Us About Maximizing Trading Profits
“In environments like the current one, however, economic analysis is more like Monet or Renoir: a healthy dose of perspective is required to fully appreciate the full picture.”
Goldman Raises December Rate Hike Odds After ‘Strong’ Payrolls Report
Bad news for stocks?
Jobs Report Misses Badly, Earnings Beats ‘Bigly’
U.S. Sept. Nonfarm Payrolls Fell 33k
Avg. hourly earnings 0.5% m/m, est. 0.3%, prior 0.2%
‘White, Still’: The Myth Of The White Eclipse
“Many of the unfair ‘opportunity hoarding’ mechanisms used by the upper middle class have racist origins – exclusionary zoning, legacy preferences, for instance – and now serve to entrench class positions, as well as racial gaps.”
Hurricane Damage: Full Week Ahead Preview
Ok, well it’s Sunday which means, barring Trump wandering into a nuclear war in the next several hours, tomorrow will be Monday. This week they’ll be a lot of talk about…
Booms, Busts And (No) Recoveries
“Painting over cracks”…
Today’s ‘Amazon Effect’ Is Not As Large As Yesteryear’s ‘Walmart Effect’ – Yet
So that’s “not nothing” (so to speak), but guess what? It’s not on par with the Walmart effect…
Why Are We Treating The Opioid Epidemic Differently Than The Crack Epidemic? Oh That’s Right: Because America Is Racist.
“Throughout the crack cocaine epidemic, there was little or no discussion of the crisis being brought on by economic despair, or that it was a public health issue, or that the users needed rehabilitation.”
‘Believe Me.’
What could go wrong?
Sleep: The Final Frontier
“As with other inventions that spread from military to civilian life—for instance penicillin, microwaves, nylon—the next logical step would be to produce sleepless workers and sleepless consumers.”
Trader: My Glass Is Half Full So Don’t Ruin It For Me, Ok?
“And yet, I almost feel like I’m being an iconoclast by choosing to take a sip from a glass half full.”
The Biggest Bubble Of Them All: ‘Work’
“Work is gradually emerging as the biggest hoax in the history of humankind.”
High Frequency Data Shows The Dramatic Impact Of Harvey On Retail Sales
“We estimate that the net reduction of spending in Texas sliced 0.1-0.2pp from the monthly growth rate of total retail sales ex-autos in August.”
The Most Important Paper Of The Next Decade
“Higher real rates, inflation and wage growth to pick up, and inequality going down. This is the opposite conclusion that almost all economists are subscribing to.”
As Irma Hits, A ‘Disastrous’ Econ Retrospective
So I guess the silver lining here is that if we just keep denying climate change and the disasters continue to get worse, we can “look forward” to more frequent and increasingly “bigly” GDP-boosting cleanup efforts.
Ignorance By Design And The Social Costs Of Stupidity
“Within this universe, economic policies are designed primarily for political marketability; economic science exists largely to provide impressive diagrams and equations to sell them with. Phrases designed in think tanks and focus groups (e.g. free market, wealth creators, personal responsibility, shared sacrifice) are repeated like incantations until it all seems like such unthinking common sense that no one even asks what the resulting picture has to do with social reality.”
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