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For all the sophistication of modern asset markets, at their core, they are still just Keynesian beauty contests. Keynes’s metaphor for the markets derived from a special type of beauty contest where the judges don’t pick who they think is most attractive, but who they think will be most attractive to all the other judges. His intuition is that traders...
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Prop 15 Analysis: Clarification Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy, General Economy October 2, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles Beacon Economics takes great pride in both the quality and objectivity of its work and stands firmly behind the conclusions of its recent analysis of Proposition 15 (https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sites/default/files/documents/scf/SVCF_Beacon_Prop_15_Analysis_9_2020.pdf). The study looks at one portion of the...
COVID-19 and the Creative Economy: Bruised, Not Broken Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Economic Policy, General Economy May 27, 2020 Author: Adam J. Fowler Adam J. Fowler All Articles This article was co-authored by Practice Lead, Mazen Bou Zeineddine. It was originally published by the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development. The current public health crisis resulting from the...
The Job-pocalypse? Relevant, hype-free insights about what’s happening in the global, U.S., and California economies. blog, Consumers, General Economy, Healthcare May 8, 2020 Author: Christopher Thornberg, PhD Christopher Thornberg, PhD All Articles The April employment report was released this morning and the grim tidings it delivered, while anticipated, were still quite startling. The U.S. unemployment rate shot to 14.7%, over 11 percentage points higher than in February, even as the number...