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In Part I , we saw how Shiller's CAPE ratio suggests something like a decade of low returns in the stock market, and how the present supercycle in inflation, tied perhaps to some post-gold-standard form of Kondratiev Waves and supercycles in technology, suggests a period of very low inflation...

Transcript Oscar Pulido: The world is already starting to shift because of the coronavirus and there's no doubt this will continue in the months and years to come. Healthcare companies and researchers around the world are mobilizing to create a vaccine, technology has shifted to emphasiz...

The Trump administration and for that matter almost everyone else is characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic as nature’s war on economic prosperity and humanity. The objective of any warring power is victory and in pursuit of victory there is no limit to the resources that are deployed to ...

Investors should brace themselves for a very different investment landscape in a post-COVID world, as globalization and central bank independence are likely to be diminished. Transcript Tina Adatia: The crisis is of course going to leave some scars on a post-COVID world. What are...

Increased importance for hard to borrow equities Revenues related to lending US equities at elevated fees saw a resurgence in the middle of 2019. These so-called "specials", broadly defined as shares which can be lent for a fee of more than 5%, generated 68% of 2019 revenues for US equities,...

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New York (April 29) - Gross Domestic Product growth for the First Quarter of 2020, or “2020 Q1 GDP”, printed down 4.8%, below the consensus estimate of a 4.0% decline and well below our most recent estimate of a flat GDP. The decline was led by a chart-busting 5.26% decline i...

Source We said yesterday we were bullish ahead of today's Fed day. The market was up big today due in part to the Fed. But did you hear what Fed Chair Powell said today? He said some very bullish things. Included in that he expects a "substantially large" economic snapback in Q3. D...

Before you question my latest bold claim about the economy, here are the rest of the rather bold recent claims that I have been making about the market since March 18. On March 18 I wrote that “we’re not out the woods yet, but get ready.” I wrote in that article that...

When the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee draws the boundaries on the current recession, it’s unlikely to stand out as an especially long one. In fact, by the time the committee publishes the official start date, it could be past its end date. Why? Because it’s...