As advertisers adapt to rising in-home media consumption, the tug-of-war for ad dollars between online and traditional media seems to have a decisive winner...
“The resurgence of the virus will be accompanied by weaker consumer demand among residents of the Southern and Western regions and may even temper the reactions of consumers in the Northeast.’’
Fear of COVID-19 absolutely crippled the U.S. economy during the first half of this year, and now it appears that there are some people that are pushing for that to happen again during the second half of 2020...
COVID may be "less deadly" than originally thought and there may have been as many as 8.7 million cases during the last three weeks of March, versus roughly the 100,000 that were reported...
This was led by improvements in production and employment-related indicators (57 of the 85 monthly individual indicators made positive contributions, while 28 indicators affected the index negatively).
While it is relatively easy to predict that the post-corona economy will suffer from high unemployment, the outlook for price inflation is not so certain...
Over the last several decades, the Federal Reserve and the US government have almost exclusively directed their policies toward “stimulating” spending. Artificially low interest rates incentivize borrowing and discourage savings.
