by [embedded content] You Might Also Like 5 Tax Strategies to Help you Hold on to Your Money in Retirement What is retirement, really? We think we know. So, we do our best to prepare for both current circumstances and as many surprises as we can conjure up. After all, with people living longer than ever before your money has to last longer than ever before. Gratuitously Impatient (For a) Rebound Jay Powell’s 2018 case for his economic “boom”, the one which was presumably behind his hawkish aggression, rested largely upon the unemployment rate alone. A curiously thin roster for a period of purported economic acceleration, one of the few sets joining that particular headline statistic in
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5 Tax Strategies to Help you Hold on to Your Money in Retirement
What is retirement, really? We think we know. So, we do our best to prepare for both current circumstances and as many surprises as we can conjure up. After all, with people living longer than ever before your money has to last longer than ever before.
Gratuitously Impatient (For a) Rebound
Jay Powell’s 2018 case for his economic “boom”, the one which was presumably behind his hawkish aggression, rested largely upon the unemployment rate alone. A curiously thin roster for a period of purported economic acceleration, one of the few sets joining that particular headline statistic in its optimism resides in the lower tiers of all statistics.
Transitory, The Other Way
After a record three straight months of decline for the seasonally-adjusted core CPI March through May 2020, it turned upward again in June. Buoyed by a partially reopened economy, the price discounting (prerequisite to the Big D) took at least one month off.
US Stall? Only Half The Imagined “V” May Indicate One, Too
These are not numbers that are consistent with a robust rebound. In fact, they don’t indicate very much of one at all. IHS Markit’s flash PMI’s for July 2020 instead look way too much like the sentiment indicators in Germany and Japan. Though they are now back near 50, both services and manufacturing, that doesn’t actually indicate what everyone seems to think it does.
Purchasing Managers Indigestion
There’s already doubt given how the two major series supposedly measuring the same thing seemingly can’t agree. If the rebound was truly robust, it would show up unambiguously everywhere. But IHS Markit’s purchasing managers indices struggled to get back above 50 in July, barely getting there, suggesting the economy might be slowing or even stalling way too close to the bottom.
A Second JOLTS
What happens when we are stunned and dazed? We filter out the noise to focus on the bare basics by getting back to our instincts, acting reflexively based upon our deeply held beliefs and especially training. When faced with a crisis and there’s no time to really think, shorthand will have to suffice.
Eugene Fama’s Efficient View of Stimulus Porn
The key word in the whole thing is “bias.” For a very long time, people working in and around the finance industry have sought to gain tremendous advantages. No explanation for the motive is required. Charts, waves, technical (sounding) analysis and so on.
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