With all the political handwringing about the federal deficit, we wanted to find a picture worth a thousand words – in this case a chart – to tell the story. Hat tip to David Blond for assembling this graphic.

Dear Readers, for your Sunday thinking we want to offer 40 slides. You will be able to get through them rapidly. They depict four time periods and show a color-coded, non-smoothed illustration of two decades of expansions and two decades of contractions in the US economy, with various components…

“With regard to interest rates we continue to expect it will be appropriate to maintain the current 0 to 1⁄4 percent target range for the federal funds rate until labor market conditions have reached levels consistent with the Committee’s assessment of maximum employment and …

Here’s a link for readers to see the price spike in the Baltic Exchange Dry Index, which reveals shipping cost details that are tied to commodities: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/baltic. The definitions and composition are available for readers.

In advance of Friday’s jobs report for April, numerous surveys (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/april-jobs-expected-to-top-1-million-as-consumers-boost-the-economy.html) showed that econ

We applaud all mothers; we wouldn’t be here without them. And we want them to be healthy, so we are scrapping our publishing plan for this Sunday and offering just one celebratory video and the helpful technical study below instead. 

The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team. These are not revised assessments, and circumstances may have changed in the market from the time of original publication. We may include older commentaries that our editors have determined may be…

Marvelous innovations in vaccine design and production by patent-protected American companies have afforded us powerful weapons to beat COVID-19, save lives, and accelerate the economic recovery. Here’s the latest thoroughly encouraging good news.

India’s health minister jumped the gun in a big way back in December. Veronica Hackethal, MD, writing for MedPage Today, explains:

The COVID Tracking Project (https://covidtracking.com) is a volunteer effort that began at The Atlantic but quickly expanded to become the ongoing work of hundreds of “volunteer data-gatherers, developers, scientists, reporters, designers, editors, and other dedicated contributors.” The COVID…