How much is infinity? Mathematicians often spend their entire career pondering the square root of two or the endless decimals of Pi yet they often find that the concept of endless is simply unfathomable. Our brains are quite finite as are the tools we use to process information. Well, it’s […]
Another day another dismal record. This one comes from the US Department of Labor who reported that 3.28 million new people filed for unemployment this past week. That’s more than five times the previous record. I know that we’re supposed to be flattening the curve by staying home but I […]
It took a total of 167 days from the first confirmed case of Coronavirus until we reached 100,000 confirmed cases. From then until the 200,000 confirmed cases was only 11 days. It took another 5 days to reach 300,000 and then just 3 days to reach 400,000. Yesterday alone 43,733 […]
So, the reason this US spending bill is taking so long is due to an old game in Washington called ‘fill the bill’. In this game, lawmakers like to pack each and every law they pass with many different things, some of which might be completely unrelated. The idea is, […]
Man, the Fed will buy anything! Over the weekend there was much discussion surrounding Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib who proposed the issuance of two platinum coins, each one worth exactly $1 trillion. Wait what?? The $1 trillion coin was first hypothesized during Obama’s response to the original financial crisis. And no, […]
“Like gold, US Dollars hold value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply.” Benjamin Bernanke Former Fed Chair November 21, 2002 Less than seven years later Helicopter Ben, as he’s since been nicknamed, became the father of quantitative easing and set the world down a path […]
Seems like the markets have finally found some level of sanity today. Though things are still quite volatile, at least the reduced level of movement is providing some breathing room. So at this time, I’d like to ponder with you about a few of the ways that the world has […]
It’s day four of quarantine and I now know the names of all my daughter’s LOL Dolls and I know how to make four different kinds of slime. Information is so important in times like these. That’s why, our friends at media shower, the sponsors of this QE Newsletter, have […]
Alright, now they’ve done the unspeakable. In an effort to stabilize the markets in the face of the crippling economic impact of the fight against COVID-19, one country has done something rather rash… Of course, neither you nor I are currently trading on the PSE so this probably has little […]
Ok. Last week was totally nuts. But this week, will probably be a lot crazier. Until now, we’ve basically been flying blind as far as what the impact on the virus on the economy has been. Now, we’re just starting to see the numbers… and they’re pretty ugly. A reduction […]
