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…
Category: economy
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.”
(Still) Hakuna Matata?
Perhaps the most amusing thing about it all is that it’s become so ubiquitous and reliable that it can now be summarized succinctly in the form of a bullet point (and apparently “bulletproof”) investment thesis…
‘Are Hurricanes Good Now?’
Listen, there’s considerable debate out there about what the impact from two catastrophic hurricanes is
Krugman: How Destroying DACA Puts The U.S. Economy On The Japan Track
“The truth is that letting the Dreamers work legally helps the U.S. economy; pushing them out or into the shadows is bad for everyone except racists. To understand why, you need to realize that America, like other advanced economies, is facing a double-barreled demographic challenge thanks to declining fertility.”
As Mnuchin Warns On Debt Ceiling, Let’s Compare Harvey To Katrina – Because That’s Fun
If you’re not in Texas or if you’re just a cold-hearted, trader cynic who only worries about your P&L, then that’s probably all you care about here, because the sooner the debt ceiling gets raised, the sooner you can cross “technical U.S. default” off your “tail risk” list.
Of course as is usually the case with catastrophic natural disasters, it’s not all good news.Â
Harvey, The Debt Ceiling, And Why It Might Be Time To Fade The Pessimism
If you were following along last week, you know that more than a few commentators
Manic Markets Reverse Jobs Knee-Jerk, But ‘There’s No Chance Of December Hike’
You want a reason to be dovish, you’ve got one now.
RV Stocks Soar On Expected Harvey-Related Demand
Reminder: We’ve been long RVs since day one…
Is Ray Dalio Wrong? One Indicator Says Maybe
“That’s it. Nothing more.”
The Arborist
“Left to its own devices your portfolio will grow wildly — not to structural ruin, but to structural inefficiency.”
Horsepower: Lessons From ‘An Old Guy With A Tractor’
“I can accomplish amazing things with that untiring, never flagging, hundred-fold leverage. I can also kill myself.”
Presenting: Jobs And ‘Hope’ Versus The World
“Of course all other data – including housing and real estate, the industrial sector, the personal/household sector and retail & wholesale – generally speaking continue to disappoint.”
U.S. GDP, ECI Both Miss; Yields, Dollar Plunge
U.S. ECONOMY EXPANDED AT 2.6% PACE IN 2Q; EST. 2.7%
U.S. Second Quarter Employment Cost Index Rose 0.5%; Est 0.6%
‘It’s A Sitting Duck’: Swiss Franc Plunge Continues, Bund Yields Soar, On Hot German Data
“All this makes the CHF a bit of a sitting duck”…
Gradually And Then Suddenly
“But, hey, we’re hitting our numbers just fine as it stands and, if you hadn’t noticed, our stock price hit a new high yesterday. Why mess up a good thing?”
‘Billions And Billions And Billions’: ECB, BoJ, And Your Full Week Ahead Preview
If you didn’t get your fill of hand-wringing over DM central banks last week, then you’re in luck…
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