Shutdown’s Effects Will Weigh on Economies for Years, says World Bank. Economies of the world’s developing nations will not...
Tag Archive for: jun 09 2020
Consumer Spending Plunges at Record Pace. In April, Japanese households spent 11.1 percent less than they did a year...
Factory Activity Slows After Initial Burst. China’s factories have begun humming again after gradually reopening since March. But a...
Central Bank Boosts Bond-Buying, Sparks Economic Rally. The European Central Bank expanded its bond-buying initiative from €750 billion to...
The “Pall on the Malls” which we have long forecast, will continually worsen, as tenants flee and mall owners...
Once again, equity markets rise, and we hear comments from the people who destroyed the economy by locking it...
Nursing Homes Nursing Less. The number of people living in U.S. nursing homes has declined in 2020 by an...
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management company with an estimated $7.4 trillion in its portfolio, wrote the U.S. government’s...
As we have long forecast, the worst in retail is yet to come. Last week, Simon Property Group, the...
MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES BUST?
support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, jun 09 2020, NOT FINAL, 2The proportion of late payments among bonded debt secured by commercial mortgages more than tripled in May, reaching 7.4...
With parents out of work, and unable to find even a minimum wage summer job for themselves, about 56...
In mid-February, we had forecast this would happen in the Trends Journal, and now it is reality: Retailers needing...
Mass protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer have further slowed the reopening...
About 1.9 million U.S. workers filed claims for unemployment benefits during the week ending 29 May, a number that...
CBO: ECONOMIC RECOVERY TO TAKE TEN YEARS
support, , TRENDS ON THE U.S. ECONOMIC FRONT, jun 09 2020, 4The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has revised downward its January economic forecast for the U.S. from 2020 to...
While the wealth gap between the one percent and the rest of society has been long reported in the...
Billionaire Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla, and Solar City, took a shot last week at the richest billionaire...
According to a recent Financial Times/Peterson poll, far more African-Americans have suffered a reduction in their family’s income due...
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —...
Tracking trends is the understanding of where we are, how we got here, and where we are going. While...