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Most people focus on the current conditions. However, as someone who has always been influenced by repetitive history, I wonder whether we are approaching a significant turning point. While I do not know, I believe it is worth pondering. Allow me to sight three events that identified turning p...

By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors Although the second quarter of 2020 will mark the worst quarter for the United States and global growth since World War II, market uncertainty and peak fear have passed and, dare I say it, potentially the equity market trough too....

Originally published April 20, 2020 Investors and the market are entering peak earnings season and with futures down Monday morning, it seemed investors may be facing a buy the rumor sell the news type of market. The crash in oil prices, with NYMEX crude down 35% to $11.77 per barrel, is a...

I was watching CNN the other day when a commentator, discussing the government aid package, said that individuals were only getting $1,200 checks and the rest of the money was going to “big business”. This seems to be an increasingly popular narrative and the confusion over the a...

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 charts to watch into the future, and I will be updating these throughout the crisis here. The first chart plots evolution of non-farm payrolls index for each o...

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Ash Bennington and Ed Harrison discussed Russian central bank policy action, risks to the commercial real estate market, and the changing role of China in the global political and financial system on today’s Real Vision Daily Briefing. The Bank of Russia announced it will cut i...

In my past articles, I often used numbers and statistics to provide background information or illustrate a point or underline an argument. This time, I will look almost exclusively at different numbers we have so far about the US economy. In many cases, we still have to rely on estimates (GD...

Investors received a steady flow of really rotten news on many fronts last week. China's economy shrank by -6.8%. JPMorgan ( JPM ) CEO Jamie Dimon said we need to expect a "severe recession" as well as "meaningfully bad" credit card defaults. The IMF changed its 2020 global growth forecast to ...

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. - Craig Ferguson We made it through...