Monthly Archives: January 2017

Cheap Big Macs Around the World

Posted on January 13, 2017 by macromon

Turkey, the UK , and Mexico (“undervalued by a whacking 55.9% against the greenback”) have gotten much cheaper over the past year. The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity, the theory that in the long … Continue reading →

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US Debt Growth By Sector

Posted on January 13, 2017 by macromon

Note that the post-crisis total debt growth in the U.S. is just a little more than half the 23-year annual average before the crisis,  a decline from an average annual growth rate of 7.7 percent to 4.3 percent.  Household debt … Continue reading →

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How Big Are The Emerging Markets?

Posted on January 12, 2017 by macromon

We put together a nice table and some charts of the relative size of emerging market (EM) economies as a percent of World GDP and total EM GDP based on regions.  The data are from the IMF’s October 2016 World … Continue reading →

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QOTD: Did Sabermetrics Predict Trump In 2001?

Posted on January 11, 2017 by macromon

A voting structure like this is an open invitation to an eccentric outcome. If the United States were to use a system like this to elect the President, the absolutely certain result would be that, within a few elections, someone … Continue reading →

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U.S. Bank Asset and Liability Growth

Posted on January 11, 2017 by macromon

An addendum to our latest post on the expected bank credit-led boom.   Here is the latest data commercial bank asset growth from the Fed as of January 6, 2017.    

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U.S. Banks Primed And Ready To Roll – Expect the Unexpected

Posted on January 11, 2017 by macromon

We’ve been busy crunching numbers on the consolidated balance sheet of U.S.-chartered depository institutions and comparing their mix of assets relative to their pre-crisis levels. The large U.S. banks begin reporting earnings on Friday. The Coming Credit Led Expansion Our … Continue reading →

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COTD: U.S. Job Killers, You Decide

Posted on January 11, 2017 by macromon

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POTD: Close Enough?

Posted on January 11, 2017 by macromon

In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.   – … Continue reading →

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Best Apple Accessories at CES 2017!

Posted on January 10, 2017 by macromon

Published on Jan 6, 2017 CES is full of manufactures making Apple accessories. We went searching for the most interesting products!  –Mac Rumors

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QOTD: LBJ Walks On Water

Posted on January 10, 2017 by macromon

If only LBJ had Twitter! . If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’  –  President Lyndon B. Johnson . (QOTD – Quote of the … Continue reading →

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