U.S.A. Wage Growth (left) vs Germany Wage Growth (right)

U.S.A. Wage Growth (left) vs Germany Wage Growth (right)

Atlanta Fed's updated annual GDP forecast: 0.4% — April 5, 2016

CAD (Canada) Trade Balance: Before and After 2009

Capacity Utilization in the United States (averaged 80.45% from 1967 until 2016). Today: 76.5

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Fertility Rate + Birth Rate, US & Canada

Current (2015) rate: 1.87 children born/woman.

Minimum population replacement rate: 2.1. 

Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate: The Purpose of the Federal Reserve

Janet Yellen to the Rescue

TOTD: Terms of Trade

TERMS OF TRADE = price of exports / price of imports = 
Px / Py

The rate at which goods are traded, either between individuals or between nations. It is the quantity of one good exchanged per unit of another good. The terms of trade is essentially the price. But the price is stated in terms of the quantity of another good. Like any market price, the terms of trade is based on what the buyers are willing to pay and what the sellers are willing to accept. The terms of trade between any two countries is based on the relative opportunity cost in each country.

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TOTD: Pareto Principle

<sup>The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity)[1] states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[2] Management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who, while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, published his first paper "Cours d'économie politique." Essentially, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; Pareto developed the principle by observing that 20% of the peapods in his garden contained 80% of the peas.[3]


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TOTD: Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility

LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL UTILITY:

A principle stating that as the quantity of a good consumed increases, eventually each additional unit of the good provides less additional utility--that is, marginal utility decreases. Each subsequent unit of a good is valued less than the previous one. The law of diminishing marginal utility helps to explain the negative slope of the demand curve and the law of demand.

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TOTD: International Trade: Heckscher–Ohlin Model

Basic situation: Two identical countries (A and B) have different initial factor endowments. Autarky equilibrium (): no trade, individual production equals consumption. Trade equilibrium: both countries consume the same (), especially beyond their own Production–possibility frontier; production and consumption points are divergent.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher%E2%80%93Ohlin_model

ECB Cuts Rates, Expands Asset-Buying Program to Boost Economy

GLD target: 126; SL: 117; Rating: Buy

Real Median Household Income in the United States

Corporate Tax Rates: China (25%) vs United States (39%)

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Corporate (over)tax = capacity (under)utilization

ZL_F / SOYB (Soybeans) Near-Term Price Target: $32.75, Medium Term: $35.00

$ZL_F / $SOYBNear-term price target: $32.75Medium-term: $35.00

— Rubin (@traderrubin) Jan. 26 at 04:47 PM

United States Labor Force Participation Rate: 2005 - Present

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Daily Caloric Intake Per Capita: China produces way too much for the amount of calories she consumes.

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10 Year Trend - Labour Force Participation vs Cap Utilization, Corp Profits, Wage Growth

Where Is The Wage Pressure In The US Supposed To Come From?

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