Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 4, 2023

People often talk about "the economy" as a single entity whose parts move in unison, with a small number of key indicators (such as GDP, the unemployment rate, and inflation) moving reliably in relation to each other. manufacturing sector, by the measures of employment and service prices, has been in a recession for nearly 12 months.

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MAY 16, 2024

Why Silicon Valley is confident, amid slowing economic growth.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

RIAs' belief in the future of the economy grew for the fourth straight month, even as the post-election bump in market sentiment faded slightly.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 10, 2025

But this is a fun conversation with Pete Dominick discussing the economy, the market and of course, the new book! He is the author of the Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy (Wiley, 2009). Yeah, yeah, more of me, I know.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

arstechnica.com) Why you shouldn't get your economic insights from VC podcasts. passingtime.substack.com) Economy Barry Ritholtz talks with Peter Goodman author of "How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain." Listening Streaming services are filled with pirated songs under sound-alike names.

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Calculated Risk

APRIL 1, 2025

From ISM: Manufacturing PMI at 49% March 2025 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in March after two consecutive months of expansion preceded by 26 straight months of contraction, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M.,

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

humbledollar.com) Fund management Why personalization could be coming for target date funds. riabiz.com) How short-term interest rates affect managed futures fund returns. rogersplanning.blogspot.com) Cities Detroit is experiencing an economic rebound. vox.com) Economic warfare doesn't work out how you would think.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

sherwood.news) Fund management Ten questions for Vanguard's new CEO Salim Ramji. etf.com) Economy Core July CPI rose 0.2%. axios.com) A slowing economy doesn't a recession make. morningstar.com) Understanding official economic data is a skill in and of itself. (ft.com) Reverse stock splits are usually a last ditch effort.

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JULY 28, 2024

ft.com) Fund management Does your alternatives fund charge fees on gross or net assets? vox.com) Work Research on how race, class and location affect economic mobility in the U.S. ft.com) Economy The case for the Fed to cut rates. wsj.com) How the post-pandemic economy is messing with the Sahm Rule.

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JUNE 21, 2024

vulture.com) Economy Scott Galloway talks with Kyla Scanlon author of "In This Economy? podcasts.apple.com) Zack Fuss talks the business of marinas with David Chesner the Co-CEO of Grove Point Marinas and Josh Koplewicz the Managing Partner of Thayer Street Partners. Listening The Longform Podcast is calling it quits.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Strategy Another star manager, another disaster for investors. Vance's hometown of Middletown, OH is experiencing an economic turnaround. papers.ssrn.com) Is economic globalization really going in reverse? danieldrezner.substack.com) Economy Layoffs have not yet picked up. politico.com) The U.S.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

spyglass.org) Fund management Blackrock ($BLK) now has some $450 billion alternative assets under management. mrmoneymustache.com) The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson. (wsj.com) The Vision Pro should have been a developer device not a consumer device.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Strategy Alternatives managers want in on the defined contribution space. variety.com) Economy Inflation has stopped going down. riaintel.com) Do you really need a separate allocation to real estate in your portfolio? morningstar.com) Growth in ETFs are a boon to Jane Street. theverge.com) Streaming has not killed off movie piracy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

ft.com) BlackRock ($BLK) reportedly has a deal to buy HPS Investment Partners, a private credit manager. nytimes.com) Economy The Russian Ruble is tumbling in value. sherwood.news) Five economic reasons to be thankful including 'Low unemployment claims. ft.com) Retail How Target ($TGT) lost its shine.

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Media Retail Economy Economics 157

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MARCH 2, 2025

wsj.com) Fund management The SEC has some issues with State Street ($STT). riabiz.com) Why investors are willing to invest with a hedge fund manager best known for cratering their prior fund. axios.com) Economy Where manufacturing jobs are increasing. agglomerations.substack.com) The economic schedule for the coming week.

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DECEMBER 31, 2024

bloomberg.com) Traditional actively managed equity mutual funds saw record outflows in 2024. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com) Economy The October Case-Shiller numbers showed a 3.6% (axios.com) Intel ($INTC) had its worst year as a public company. cnbc.com) Gold had its best year since 2010. rise in national home prices.

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Calculated Risk

MARCH 3, 2025

February 2025 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded for the second month in a row in February after 26 consecutive months of contraction, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. From ISM: Manufacturing PMI at 50.3% Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M.,

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

hunterwalk.com) Fund management How securities lending works. politico.com) Why market economics doesn't necessarily work in health care. longreads.com) Populism is bad for a country's economy. marginalrevolution.com) Economy Shouldn't there be more layoffs by now? econofact.org) The economic schedule for the coming week.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 21, 2023

This is not the same economy as the pre-Covid era. This is the economy of “pushing price” and finding that marginal dollar. That was supposed to be a headwind to the US economy and inflationary pressures. Sam is the author of “After Normal” and writes frequently on the cross-section of the economy and markets.

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JUNE 6, 2024

sherwood.news) Alternatives There are very good reasons why hedge fund managers are not publicly traded. bloomberg.com) PE managers love fee income, performance fees not so much. wsj.com) Economy Weekly initial unemployment claims seem to have bottomed. (theblock.co) Franklin Templeton ($BEN) is exploring funds with altcoins.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

biopharmadive.com) Fund management A closer look at the proposed SPDR SSGA Apollo IG Public & Private Credit ETF. citywire.com) Blackrock ($BLK) now manages some $11.5 gardenandgun.com) Economy The hurricanes are going to mess with economic data for awhile. (sherwood.news) One company's loss is another's gain.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

vulture.com) Economy 10 things Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway learned in 2023. bloomberg.com) Four megatrends heading into 2024 including a more normal economy. open.spotify.com) Brink Lindsey talks economic dynamism with Tyler Cowen.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In other words, if you were forecasting 10-year returns of 3% annually, you are also forecasting an economic shitstorm of rare and historic proportions. I do believe that the economic gains we are going to see in technology justify higher market prices. But that’s a very different discussion than 3% annually for 10 years.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

ft.com) Active fund managers, like T Rowe Price ($TROW), are struggling in the ETF era. nytimes.com) Economy The economic graph of 2023. bonddad.blogspot.com) The American manufacturing economy is bumping along. wsj.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. npr.org) Human population may soon peak.

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JULY 5, 2024

Economy Paul Podolsky talks with Lev Borodovsky, creator of The Daily Shot. paulpodolsky.substack.com) Tyler Cowen talks with Joseph Stiglitz, author of "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society." open.spotify.com) Finance Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with @modestproposal about AI and the state of active management.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

(herbgreenberg.com) Private credit Why Blackrock ($BLK) is spending $12 billion to buy private credit manager HPS. fa-mag.com) Economy Ten economic questions for 2024 including 'What will happen with house prices in 2025?' on.ft.com) Private credit is planning to take bigger chunk of the overall credit markets.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When the Economic Policy Institute analyzed this, they discovered: “Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC [non-financial corps] sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a Generally speaking, high-profit margins are not a sign of an economy that is overheating.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

wsj.com) Why Blackrock ($BLK) is buying infrastructure manager GIP. washingtonpost.com) Measuring economic inequality is harder than it looks. papers.ssrn.com) Economy People have nostalgia for a time that never existed. papers.ssrn.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. ft.com) Crime U.S.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 5, 2023

Excerpt: The economic forecast prepared by the staff for the June FOMC meeting continued to assume that the effects of the expected further tightening in bank credit conditions, amid already tight financial conditions, would lead to a mild recession starting later this year , followed by a moderately paced recovery.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

brklyninvestor.com) Fund management Vanguard is no longer always the low cost option. arstechnica.com) Economy Another chart crime debunked. ritholtz.com) The apartment economy continues to loosen. calculatedrisk.substack.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. morningstar.com) How to avoid investment disasters.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

advisorperspectives.com) Managed futures are struggling to keep up YTD. etf.com) Portfolio managers won't outperform if they get it wrong about the biggest seven stocks. economy didn't go into recession this year. theatlantic.com) Why economic perceptions have been so negative. economy afloat. people.com)

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Trade Brains

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Deloitte has released a promising forecast for India’s economic growth. Dr. Rumki Majumdar sees India’s economy showing strong resilience after the election period. The country maintains its position among the world’s fastest-growing large economies. The report predicts GDP growth between 7 and 7.2

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

He coined the term “K-shaped recovery” to describe the pandemic’s effects on the economy. Atwater coined the phrase “ K-Shaped Recovery ” to describe confidence-divide between the top and bottom of the economy post-pandemic. The work from home confidence divide was both revealed and amplified by the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

podcasts.apple.com) Economy Ezra Klein talks economic trends with Mohamed El-Erian. nytimes.com) Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal talk with Brad DeLong author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century."

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JULY 16, 2023

humbledollar.com) Economic forecasting is not the way to alpha. youngmoney.co) Fund management The costs of ETF ownership differ by time horizon. slate.com) How different economic schools of thought did on inflation. theovershoot.co) Economy Good news/bad news for the U.S. theringer.com) Elon Musk's Twitter isn't fun.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

klementoninvesting.substack.com) Why are market cap weighted indices hard to beat for managers? news.crunchbase.com) China China's economy is now experiencing deflation. economist.com) Economy A re-accelerating economy risks higher base inflation. awealthofcommonsense.com) Base effects matter when analyzing economic data.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

etf.com) Dating Match Group ($MTCH) has attracted an activist investor in Elliott Investment Management. ft.com) Economy How much is negative news sentiment driving bad economic vibes? (morningstar.com) Everyone is just waiting for the final approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs.

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