Thursday, April 9, 2020

There Are Now 8.6 Million Missing American Workers

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Everyone knows how unemployment surged through the roof. In a span of two weeks, 10 million people claimed filed for unemployment benefits. ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Is Greece Done with Deleveraging?

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Is Greece done with deleveraging? It's been deleveraging for over 10 years now. Credit to GDP is down from a peak of almost 140% of G...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

How Did the US Stock Market Perform During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic?

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During the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic , the first wave of deaths hit its peak of 5 deaths per 1,000 persons in July of 1918. It subsided in...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Both China and Hong Kong Have Continued Deleveraging Throughout Most of 2019

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Credit to GDP growth has dipped below the trendline for both countries as of the third quarter 2019. Source: https://www.bis.org/...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

How Crazy is the Philippine Real Estate Market? Prices have Climbed Over 63% Since Duterte Took Office!

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Philippine house prices have gone parabolic. They have climbed 63.33% since President Duterte took office in the second half of 2016. ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Is ABS-CBN Preparing for a Shutdown? Why Have Regularized Employees Been Reduced By Over 60%?

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In 2017, ABS-CBN's worker headcount was 11,068 persons as detailed in its 2017 Annual Report. Around 60% of the worker headcount was com...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Beginnings of Wage Inflation

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Last year , we estimated that pointed out that there were still 7.4 million workers missing from the labor force. The presence of so many m...