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BEA Indicators- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, January 2026 March 12, 2026
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A Map of the Information Network that Failed
Earlier this week I wrote a piece describing the current capital market collapse as a cascading network failure of the information network that we call the capital market. The piece was based upon work in Chapter 7 of my new … Continue reading
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Fear, Currency Holdings, and the Fed
The chart below shows the amount of currency held by the public through last Friday. Can you detect a pattern? When people get scared, as they are now, they pull money out of the bank, out of money funds, and … Continue reading
Posted in All, Government Policy, U.S. Economy, Why We Do the Things We Do
Tagged Currency, Economy, fear, monetary base, Rutledge, the Fed
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