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Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

The Big Picture

workers in the economy that excludes proprietors, private household employees, unpaid volunteers, farm employees, and the unincorporated self-employed. – but most months, the specific number is more or less a rounding error. This is not a popular opinion.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

dollar, it would reshape the global economy and geopolitical landscape. Previously, she was Senior Portfolio Manager for PGIM Real Estate’s flagship core equity real estate fund. Perhaps we’ve all just become economic snowflakes? Morningstar ) • Do we really live in an “age of inequality”?

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Market Commentary: Four Big Questions

Carson Wealth

Strong wage growth and lower inflation have helped the economy stay resilient. Why Has the Economy Stayed Resilient? A large part of the economy’s resilience has to do with a strong labor market that has surprised many economists and market-watchers. At the end of 2014, China held about a fifth of the foreign share.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday train WFH reads: • Good News-Bad News About the Economy : The hard part about markets and the economy is that there are often conflicting signals about what’s going on. That exodus marks a notable shift for a fund that had consistently drawn investor cash since its 2014 inception. I became one.

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CIO Perspectives: Goldilocks Economy and Opportunities Outside the Magnificent Seven

Brown Advisory

The team discusses this and Mick talks about the tools he, and his global equity team, use to assess various macro risks and determine which factors are legitimate threats to the cash flows of their portfolio companies. He used case studies of portfolio holdings Taiwan Semiconductor and AIAA in a discussion of opportunities and risks.

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CIO Perspectives: Goldilocks Economy and Opportunities Outside the Magnificent Seven

Brown Advisory

The team discusses this and Mick talks about the tools he, and his global equity team, use to assess various macro risks and determine which factors are legitimate threats to the cash flows of their portfolio companies. He used case studies of portfolio holdings Taiwan Semiconductor and AIAA in a discussion of opportunities and risks.

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Equity Beat: In Consideration of the Macro

Brown Advisory

But we never forget that we manage diversified portfolios, and those portfolios are indeed affected by macro factors; inflation, interest rates, bank liquidity and other issues facing the economy will of course influence the prospects of the companies we hold in our strategies.