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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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Can Economists Predict Recessions?

The Big Picture

In the past four quarters, economic forecasters have, on average, predicted a 42% probability of a contraction in the U.S. Short answer: Maybe a quarter ahead (but not always). Beyond that short time frame, it’s simply too variable: “These questions have taken on particular importance recently. appeared first on The Big Picture.

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GDP When? (Not Now)

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It uses (13 or so) inputs 1 to extrapolate a rough approximation of economic growth. The error range can be large, especially early in the quarter , or when an economic shock occurs, such as early in the 2020 Pandemic. Higgins Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, July 1, 2014 1.

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The Advisory | March 2014

Brown Advisory

The Advisory | March 2014. Sat, 03/01/2014 - 14:15. to emerging markets, big-picture economic expectations and on-theground reality for companies were out of sync in 2013. From the U.S. Here’s why both are important.

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Collapse in Prospective Home Buyer Traffic

The Big Picture

This brings us to the chart: The one above shows the traffic of prospective buyers looking at a new home (2014- 2022); the one below goes back to the 1980s. The four largest drops occurred during distinct periods of economic distress: 1990 (recession), 2006-09 (GFC), 2020 (pandemic/recession), and today (FOMC 300 bp rate hike).

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Wealth Inequality Starts at the Top

The Big Picture

Source: FRED Wealth disparities get ever more lopsided the higher up the economic strata you climb; there is more disparity with the top 1% than the top 10%, but the biggest spreads are at the top 0.1% (and above). Consider the chart at top, created by Invictus via FRED. And, it has accelerated over the past few decades.

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My Top 10 Peeves

Discipline Funds

I wrote a fun new paper about the top 10 thing s in finance and economics that are my pet peeves. The article was inspired by the wonderful Cliff Asness paper from 2014 in which he debunks many common finance myths. Many of the things that annoy Cliff also annoy me, but I tend to get more annoyed by bad economic narratives.