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Fed's Beige Book: "Economic activity increased slightly"

Calculated Risk

Fed's Beige Book Economic activity increased slightly, on balance, since early January, with eight Districts reporting slight to modest growth in activity, three others reporting no change, and one District noting a slight softening. Consumer spending, particularly on retail goods, inched down in recent weeks.

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

This is as true for professionals as it is for amateurs; it’s also true in music, film, sports, television, and economic and market forecasting. How can we re-engineer our media consumption to make it more useful to our needs? Media Madness : Do we really need 24/7 financial advice for our investments we wont draw on for decades?

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Market Concentration

The Big Picture

These reflect the economic dominance of one specific part of the economy or another for very long periods of time. They are based on historical data that looks at 200 Years of Market Concentration. You might be surprised at the findings. As the chart above shows, there are long periods of market concentration.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Global Financial Data ) Vanguard 2025 economic and market outlook : The global monetary easing cycle will be in full swing in 2025, with inflation in most developed economies now within touching distance of central banks targets. Luxury car sales fell 27%. But cutting government spending is easy, if you take on power.

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Sunday links: forecasting accuracy

Abnormal Returns

washingtonpost.com) Measuring economic inequality is harder than it looks. papers.ssrn.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. theatlantic.com) Why your search engine results are getting worse. (nber.org) Policy Obvious societal issue remain in the wide open, but nobody does anything about them. honest-broker.com)

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Fundamental Analysis Of Elecon Engineering Company – Financials & More

Trade Brains

Fundamental Analysis of Elecon Engineering Company: The stock of Elecon Engineering Company has generated a whopping return of 1,000% in the last five years for its investors. In this article, we’ll perform a fundamental analysis of Elecon Engineering Company and attempt to know if it can be a good investment pick.

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Friday links: unclear outcomes

Abnormal Returns

sherwood.news) How well do AI search engines cite actual sources? bonddad.blogspot.com) Some unconventional measures of economic weakness. (wsj.com) AI AI models were trained on pirated books. See which ones here. theatlantic.com) OpenAI o1-pro was the most expensive model in AI history. wapo.st) What makes you think Putin wants peace?