Economic Overviews

The output gap is a critical concept in economics that measures the real economy today relative to trend potential....and the biggest question in the economy today is how long will it take to close the gap.

A look (not a prediction) at a series of not improbable events that could develop [and which] would change our economic world overnight.

No matter how boring it sounds, all investors must make it a point to track economic indicators to understand the direction in which the nation is headed...[and, in the process,] sharpen [their] investment decisions. Here are the key indicators that you should be tracking:

The value of a currency is determined by a number of variables. In this article, I will focus on the dynamics of demand, supply, current account deficits, and aggregate government debt.

The financial breakdown the world is about to face over the next few years will be an unprecedented catastrophe

The conventional wisdom seems to be that the economy will quickly recover once governments open things up again but..NFL Commissioner  Roger Goodell isn’t so confident. 

Whether it was due to geography or history or maybe even policy, we have arrived. Everything America once aspired to be, we now are. Not only have we achieved the fabled American Dream, we are arguably among the safest, healthiest, happiest human beings to have ever existed.

I humbly submit that the 1920s are reminiscent of our current decade, the 2020s.

Normal business and economic cycles are characterized by growth in the economy (termed expansions), followed by periodic declines (called recessions) and if a recession lasts...

Even if the economy improves (it won’t in any real sense), the changes coming to this country border on the unimaginable for both the enlightened and unenlightened. Economic events similar to what occurred during the Great Depression are not far from happening. Some outcomes will be worse than what occurred 80 years ago. [Let me explain.] Words: 563