Charts of the Week
Defined Benefit Plans Continue to Shrink
December 20, 2019
Defined benefit plans continue to be replaced by IRAs and defined contribution plans.
Defined benefit plans continue to be replaced by IRAs and defined contribution plans.
A look at outstanding amounts of Treasuries, corporates, agencies, munis and open market paper.
A home may be the biggest purchase most people make in their lives, but households' home equity is actually comparable to households' direct stock ownership.
Personal consumption continues to make up a larger portion of U.S. GDP as time progresses.
The amount of outstanding private credit in the U.S. experienced a brief decline during the financial crisis, but government debt grew throughout the entire period. Both are now at new highs.
Almost 42% of FDIC deposits in the U.S. are uninsured.
U.S. equity issuance shrunk by a net $598 billion in the second quarter, as buybacks and mergers outpaced IPOs.
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Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Jim Bianco to MacroVoices. They discuss Jim’s views on Zoltan Pozsar’s theory of repo dislocation, if QE4 is imminent in the near future, what’s on the horizon for the bond market and the fixed income market & more.
Today's topics include opinions on the repo market, the Amazon effect, pick any asset, meet the new BOE governor, Sweden's move away from negative rates, is inflation inflated?, stock valuations, risk parity ETFs, the dwindling analyst community, reaching for yield, the legality of the BOE's fast audio feed and pistachios to the rescue for the Chinese trade deal?