Today we present a guest post written by Matías Scaglione and Romina Soria of Motio Research, an independent research firm focused on measuring and analyzing U.S. household income.
From the EIA:
The US is going to expand the trade war against a whole slew of countries, using Section 301 charging “structural excess capacity”, caused by government intervention. China is up on the block, according Bloomberg:
Conference Board indicator registers decline relative to downwardly revised July confidence:
Is the real interest rate set by the demand vs. supply of all savings, private and public? Or is it set by the demand for money vs. bonds emanating from liquidity preference and (outside) wealth demand? Got to answer this in anticipation of teaching this Fall semester.
As we lumber into an expanded trade war with Canada:
Who could’a thunk it? From Bloomberg:
Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by Jamel Saadaoui (Université Paris 8-Vincennes).
Anybody familiar with the gravity model of trade would be unsurprised that Wisconsin (exports) a lot to Canada.