Category: Global Economics

Here’s some interesting Tweets from the elbow bump to long 21-day quarantines to deaths to toilet paper thefts.

The Japanese economy shrank at 6.3% annualized in the fourth quarter. Forget talk of recession, it’s already underway.

The pool of severe cases keeps rising. Most of the death counts will come from this pool.

This is a coronavirus update for February 15, 2020.

The Bloomberg Startup Barometer, a measure of business environment health, is in a steep plunge.

Coronavirus data and anecdotes from China is increasing disturbing. Nearly everyone questions the data we do have.

Industrial Production fell 0.3% as expected, but revisions subtract another 0.1%. Weather was again a factor.

A reader is looking for the hypothetical person whose cost of living matches the CPI. Know anyone?

The BLS says the CPI rose 0.1% in January. Year-Over-Year the CPI is up 2.5%. Your experience is sure to…

Yesterday China reported fewer than 2,000 new cases. Today it’s nearly 15,000.