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...in the last ten weeks, almost twice as many Americans have filed for unemployment than jobs gained during the last decade since the end of the Great Recession...

The super rich are dealing with a slightly different set of problems than Main Street. Namely: how do I get to a yacht while staying germ-free?

First came currency wars (1921–1936). Then came trade wars (1930–34) and then finally a shooting war (1939–1945)...

...in the first and second quarters of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has initiated a transformation of consumer spending trends as we know them...

Our choice is to continue to accept beatings and consent to their vision of the future – a boot stomping on our faces forever - or a 2nd Civil War.

Locking down much of the country may have helped to “flatten the curve” a bit, but it has also had some very serious consequences that public health officials did not anticipate...

The fragile ice shelf of speculative bets and debt clinging to the mountainside is making strange creaking sounds - will you listen or will you ignore it because 'the Fed has our back'?

Another pair of suspenders is on deck... Gold got that message. Did you?

Maybe 'hope' is a strategy after all?

This is a 5-sigma beat...

New Zealand's economy is export-reliant and expected to contract a stunning 21.8% in the current quarter due to the pandemic.

S&P CoreLogic removed the data for Detroit for virus-related reasons... which is likely to dramatically skew the data.

Just another macro data point for so-called investors to ignore...

Google, Apple, Microsoft and UnitedHealth are all working on projects to gather up as much as possible about your employees' health and report some of that data back to you.

“Demography, however, is destiny for entitlements, so arithmetic will do the meddling...”

And the banking layoffs have begun...

Additionally, seasonal hiring is also expected to plunge more than 75% from a year ago.

...not everyone was adversely impacted by COVID-19, especially in China.

It had been hoped that the unemployment numbers would begin to normalize once states began “reopening” their economies, but so far that is not really materializing...