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Question #2 for 2024: How much will job growth slow in 2024? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2024. 2) Employment: Through November 2023, the economy added 2.6 2) Employment: Through November 2023, the economy added 2.6 Or will the economy lose jobs? Or will the economy lose jobs? million jobs in 2023. million jobs in 2023.

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MiB: Gretchen Morgenson on Private Equity

The Big Picture

A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. They also wrote the 2011 bestseller “ Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon ,” about the mortgage crisis.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

A downturn in the market doesn’t always precede a downturn in the economy. It’s hard to completely dismiss this as a leading indicator and I’m not here to do that, but while most drawdowns of this magnitude have led to economic contractions, they haven’t always. At its low, the S&P 500 was 25% below its high. Irrelevant Investor ).

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Question #2 for 2023: How much will job growth slow in 2023? Or will the economy lose jobs?

Calculated Risk

Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2023. 2) Employment: The economy added 4.5 2) Employment: The economy added 4.5 Or will the economy lose jobs? If the Fed drives the economy into recession (to cool inflation), then we could see job losses in 2023.

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Observations to Start 2023

The Big Picture

Let’s jump into the new year with some fresh observations, some of which are quite surprising: • Astronomical Measures of Time Are Unrelated to Investing : 2023 – a new year! Welcome to 2023! It is natural to hope the flipping of the calendar brings something new and different. It takes the Earth 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.76

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022 mhannan Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:48 Just want the PDF? Capital cycles appear when product shortages and subsequent high prices and rising return on invested capital (RoIC) are met by capital flowing into an industry to satiate the new demand. The key to this is analysis of the supply-side.

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New Year, New Clean Slate

Investing Caffeine

bear markets”), the bond or fixed income investments in a diversified portfolio act as shock absorbers to cushion the blow of volatile stock prices. More specifically, in a typical bear market, the economy generally slows down causing demand to decelerate, and interest rates to decline, which causes the values of bonds to increase.

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