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- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, December and Annual 2024
- Personal Income and Outlays, December 2024
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- U.S. International Investment Position, 3rd Quarter 2024
- Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 3rd Quarter 2024
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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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