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Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Will there be a recession in 2025?

Calculated Risk

How much will the economy grow in 2025? A year ago, I argued that "the economy will avoid recession" in 2024, and that a soft landing was the likely outcome. Here are the Ten Economic Questions for 2025 and a few predictions: Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Or will the economy lose jobs?

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U.S. Demographics: Largest 5-year cohorts, and Ten most Common Ages in 2024

Calculated Risk

There will be plenty of "gray hairs" walking around in 2030, but the key for the economy is the large cohorts in the prime working age. As I noted in 2014, demographics were positive for apartments, and more recently positive for homeownership. Note: This is using the 2023 projections main series.

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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

The Big Picture

Economies are extremely dynamic, ever-changing on a day-to-day basis. Let’s have a look: Over the 10 year period from 2014 to 2023, CA has grown its QSR workforce by 31.5% I will, however, make a couple of substantive points by way of rebuttal: Correlation is not causation. to only 19.5% to just 18.8%

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#5 – “The US is a Minority of Global GDP”

Meb Faber Research

At around 25% of the total, or approximately $30 trillion, the US is the world’s dominant economy. However, many investors assume the share of the pie is much bigger. Likewise, if you ask investors what share of GDP do the emerging markets represent, 90% underestimate that emerging markets are a MAJORITY of global GDP.

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Ideal quarterly investment letters: Meaningful, specific, and short

Investment Writing

Note: This post originally appeared in 2021 and was edited on June 1, 2014, and June 18, 2024. Here are some relevant responses: The investments are a commodity…the client bought the firm and that brand should be consistently presented in all interactions.

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From ₹247 to ₹3.44 Lakh in 10 Years – How Ethereum Became the Top Crypto of the Decade

Trade Brains

Their 2014 whitepaper laid out a “world computer,” able to run smart contracts: pieces of code that execute automatically on the blockchain. Now, developers could build entire economies, games, and organisations out of code directly on-chain. Back then, Ether was nearly worthless. After intensive development, July 30, 2015, arrived.

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Benchmarking the U.S. economy

Calculated Risk

Presidents receive too much credit and blame for the economy! But it worth looking at the current state of the economy. economy that President Donald Trump is set to inherit While the U.S. economy in the later part of 2024 was in a strong position. From economist Ernie Tedeschi: Benchmarking the U.S. See Table 1.)