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- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, March 2025
- Personal Income and Outlays, March 2025
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- Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
- Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 4th Quarter 2024 and Preliminary 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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