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BEA Indicators
- Gross Domestic Product for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2021 and 2022
- Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
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- Personal Income by County and Metropolitan Area, 2023
- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, September 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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