A grizzly bear swims at pandemic hard-hit Oakland Zoo in California this summer. Getty Images A recent spate of stock drops, exacerbated by signs of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, is unsettling to say the least. The market selloff of last spring was brief, but brutal. Our call …
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Stocks got off to a red-hot start to the week, with the Nasdaq cruising to record highs on Monday, and while the gloom-and-doom set have plenty of reason to believe it won’t last, Economic Cycle Research Institute co-founder Lakshman Achuthan doesn’t see it that way. At least that’s what his …
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The U.S. economy might not fully return to normal until 2022, and the stock market is at risk of a correction later in the summer, a leading economic forecaster said Friday. Christophe Barraud, chief economist and strategist at Market Securities in Paris, said the best case for the U.S. economy …
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Even in normal times, being an economic forecaster requires a multi-disciplinary approach. Not only do you need to understand the economic relationships, but you have to take all sorts of other variables into account: politics, finance, meteorology, psychology, supply-chain management and more. Add epidemiology to the list, as award-winning forecaster …
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