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  Bond Default Rate % moving right along

Swiss National Bank has become one of largest tech investors in the world..

Hate Social Media? You’ll Love This Documentary  The Social Dilemma argues that humanity’s greatest existential threat is not climate change...

(FT) Those boats in Texas paraded at the wrong speed The Trump boat parade on Saturday in Texas failed to do these things, and ended up figh...

  (Reuters) - Britain began a fresh round of Brexit trade talks by warning the European Union that it was ramping up preparations to leave...

Suggested Reading regarding  CLO's:  The Looming Bank Collapse Unless you work in finance, you probably haven’t heard of CLOs, but accor...

Quick Overview is up to date Nonfarm payrolls rose by 1.37 million, including the hiring of 238,000 temporary Census workers. The unemploym...

A quite remarkable 60 year high chart is Real Disposable U.S. Income YoY % Change.  (working here ) Cushioning the pandemic ... Ho...

Quick Overview is up to date President Donald Trump is willing to sign a $1.3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, a top aide said on Fr...

Study : Black turbine blades reduced bird mortality by 72% Some very long-term trends are changing for the better. First, insuran...

Drewry’s composite World Container index increased 4.2% to $2,176.90 per 40ft container this week. More shipping here and here

  Quick Overview is up to date The National Association of Realtors said on Friday sales of existing homes rose 24.7% to a seasonally...

Major World Stock Indices are up to date

Quick Overview   is up to date No sign of a stimulus deal - Senate is on vacation till next month .   Bloomberg: Warren B...

Money is just not circulating all that well. So, talk of inflation is probably a bit premature.   Velocity of money  YoY US ...

Quick Overview is up to date

Lumber: looks like an all time high to me, at least since 1972 -  I have no idea if it was ever higher before. Must have a building boom go...

The Real Estate Page   is up to date, after some 3 years of neglect.   Except Dow RE index & HGX index - these two should be up by next ...

Quick Overview     is up to date Apple ( AAPL ) is splitting its stock four for one - great for writing puts. Selling one $400 put will, a...

The 32.9% annualized slump in GDP – equivalent to a quarterly fall of 9.5% – is the worst since records began in 1947

Gold in inflation adjusted terms:

Quick Overview is up to date Initial U.S. Jobless claims increased to 1.42 million in the week ended July 18, up 109,000 from the prior ...

Ounces of Silver in the SLV  -  remarkable.

Gold, a bit closer to  an all time high...Is a black swan on the way??

Gold, moving right along...

But for a new all time high silver has a bit farther to go.

 Silver new high for the move.

The daily U.S. national death rate appears to be climbing again.

The FED has a new index that is quite interesting. Check it out ! use tabs to adjust time frame

Evidently not much eating out happening unless people are convinced that the pandemic is at least somewhat under control

China's industrial capacity utilization rebound is quite impressive.

Quick Overview   is up to date The New York Times:      About 5.4 million Americans lost health insurance in the pandemic, more tha...