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Will King Dollar finally be dethroned in July?

by Matein Khalid | Jul 30, 2020 | The Macro View, zLead Article, zNewsletter

The US Dollar Index has fallen almost 6% since its March 2020 highs. This is no surprise given the sheer scale and speed of the Federal Reserve’s response to the pandemic – a $3 trillion rise in the balance sheet, a buying spree in US Treasury, agency, MBS and...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is technology’s next ten bagger stock.

by Matein Khalid | Jul 30, 2020 | The Fund Manager, zLead Article, zOurWriters1

In the past 18 years, after a series of spectacular and occasionally failed rocket launches, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as Silicon Valley’s next colossus, a once in a generation business in the same league as an Amazon, a Google or a Microsoft. SpaceX’s current...

The New York Times Revives Its Grim Past

by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 25, 2020 | The Economist

The resignation letter from former New York Times editor and writer Bari Weiss was so powerful because it seemed to state what many once-loyal readers – I’ve been among them for many years, even given the obvious bias of the paper – already knew given the way things...

The Monthly Startling stats Index

by Wilhelm Åkesson | Jul 22, 2020 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Macrobond Household Index Euro Area: Consumer confidence survey results for April 2020: -22Lowest number since survey started: -24Expectation of becoming unemployed in next 12 months: 62 (High) Household gross total income in Q4 2019: 1.8 trillion EURChange since...

What Good Comes from this Tragedy?

by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Jul 13, 2020 | The Economist, zEditor's pick

Many millions of people have spent the last four months in sadness and depression. It’s hard to watch the world shattered by the bad behavior of governments – and to see too many among us cheer the destruction – and not feel a sense of despair. And yet the human mind...