Category: Monthly Highlights

We had a total of 15 posts (including this one) in September 2018, the fewest since January 2018 (the month this site launched). Hopefully, October 2018 will be different and we should post more often. We will also trail a new Monthly Highlights in October. Here are highlights from September 2018,

Our three most read posts in September 2018

Currency carnage everywhere, here’s how every currency in the world has performed against the US dollar over the past year

Banks in the United States have a problem – they can’t find enough customers to lend money to

Gold, Equities or Property? Here’s how much each has returned since 1990, 2000, 2010 and since Lehman

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Here are highlights from August 2018,

Our three most read posts in August 2018

Do economic fundamentals matter anymore? (Most read for a second month running)

The S & P 500 is up 180% since the end of the last U.S. recession but the average wage is only up 21.2%, disposable income up 24.6% and GDP up 39.5%

London house prices have fallen most since 2009 but it is not what it seems        

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Here are highlights from July 2018,

Our three most read posts in July 2018

Do economic fundamentals matter anymore?

The impact of U.S. tax cuts on Federal finances so far

Here’s how much the balance sheets of the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have grown this century

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Here are highlights from June 2018,

Our three most read posts in June 2018

Those three U.S. recession indicators – how near or far are those from being invoked?

Manufacturing is growing in the United States, but it isn’t generating too many jobs

Does the global economy run on fake data?

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