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- Gross Domestic Product (Second Estimate), Corporate Profits (Preliminary Estimate), 1st Quarter 2025 May 29, 2025
- Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023 April 2, 2025
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BEA Indicators
- Marine Economy Satellite Account, 2023
- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, April 2025 and Annual Revision
- Personal Income and Outlays, April 2025
- Gross Domestic Product (Second Estimate), Corporate Profits (Preliminary Estimate), 1st Quarter 2025
- Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
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Are Investment Grade Bonds Really Investment Grade?
This chart caught my eye this morning. Investors are increasingly worrying about investment grade (IG) corporate bonds. And they should. Most IG bonds carry the lowest IG credit rating; and they are overweighted in the energy sector. When bottom-rung IG … Continue reading
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Financial Crises are Pandemics Too
Summary: Long ago, Friedrich von Hayek published two brilliant papers describing a price system as an information network. Since then, thousands of scientific papers have been published in network theory. Epidemiology is the study of how a pathogen like the … Continue reading
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