Today's topics include replacing repo with swaps for regulatory reasons, 2019 stock returns, paying up for quants, the low rate environment, stock returns and earnings, doom and gloom predictions for 2020, IPOs, credit default swaps, a supply side recession, leveraged loan downgrades, the wealth management industry, active vs. passive, Libra, oil supply/demand, the rigged game at ratings agencies and stock trading fees.
Today's topics include the repo market as year-end approaches, Powell vs. Trump, a political update, Chinese corporate defaults, forecasts for slower Eurozone growth in 2020, wage growth by income level and security lending.
A look at the average years of education across the world
A look at labor stats since 1774
A long-term look at GDP per capita
Stock prices since the 1600s.
A look at real and nominal U.S. home prices since 1890
A look at the UK since 1801
Trump held true on his promise to cut regulations when he took office in 2016. In the past couple years, however, the number of pages in the Federal Register have slowly crept higher.
A long-term look at government finances
A long-term view of interest rates in the U.S.