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Today’s Fed Decision: The Funds Rate Is Irrelevant—QT Is What Matters Until we understand the direction the Fed is going with its quantitative tools, and the impact on bank deposits, we cannot predict if the banking situation will improve or get worse. Uncategorized March 23, 2023 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles
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Why GDP Growth Should Slow… And Why It Won’t The Complexities Behind the US GDP Slowdown and the Factors Preventing its Decline. Budgets & Deficits, General Economy November 3, 2021 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles In the 3rd quarter, U.S. GDP grew by 2%, down from an almost 6% pace over the
The Impact Of COVID-19 On Los Angeles’ Entertainment Industry The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was a generational challenge to the global entertainment industry, one that led to the delay or cancellation of up to 60% of scripted titles and to an 80% drop-in box-office revenue. blog, General Economy May 3, 2021 Author: Patrick Adler Patrick
Miserabilism and Money: Why More Stimulus Is A Bad Idea (part 2) Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies . Budgets & Deficits, Economic Policy February 24, 2021 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles Part 1 of this post (published last week) argued that the strong economic