- August 22, 2025
Numbers Behaving Badly
If you are an investor, an economist, or really anyone who watches big trends, numbers are your friends. They help you understand events you can’t personally observe.
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- August 15, 2025
Inflationary Questions
Last week I compared our jobs data, which is sometimes questionable, to World War II weather forecasts. Those were also questionable but necessary anyway. The generals needed them “for planning purposes.”
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- August 8, 2025
Soft Data Hardens
I remember when August was a slow month. School didn’t start until after Labor Day. Even in my adult days in the investment world, not much happened. People were either on vacation or coming back and getting ready for September. It’s hard to believe, but nobody really cared about Jackson Hole in the ’80s or ’90s. And it had several venues up until 1981 when it became “Jackson Hole.”
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- August 1, 2025
Prepare to Muddle Through?
I am widely known as the “Muddle Through” guy. The giant US economy is part of an even larger global economy that doesn’t change direction easily. Major shifts occur slowly, even when presidents, central bankers, and CEOs want otherwise. They don’t have nearly as much power as they may think.
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The newsletter began as John’s way of sharing his thoughts with a few associates. Two decades later, it is one of the most widely read investment newsletters in the world. From his warning of an impending recession in 2000, to a polemic on the Obamacare “death spiral” in 2016, John has blazed his own trail as one of the most respected macroeconomic minds in the field.
"Central bankers, businessmen, and investors continually try to beat History to a pulp, but History always wins the final rounds."
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