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  • Mexico's Twin Crises: The Pandemic and a Plunging Economy
     Author(s): William Witherell, Ph.D. | Fri June 5, 2020



    South of the border, our neighbor and the second largest economy in Latin America, Mexico, is experiencing a severe and still worsening health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dire effects of the illness itself are compounded by a brutal decline in the economy, which at the start of 2020…


  • Inflation, Deflation, and Capacity Utilization – Part 2
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Thu June 4, 2020



    Bloomberg’s Lisa Abramowicz recently tweeted, “When you measure the prices of things Americans are spending money on right now, ‘it turns out that the actual inflation rate is not as low’ as the data suggest” (https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1263868020516151298). Her evidence was a…


  • Two Covers; Two Sectors
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed June 3, 2020



    If you looked at the two different covers of The Economist for May 30, 2020, you saw the 100,000-death message on the American version, and you saw the Hong Kong security law depiction on the Asian edition. Internal content was mostly the same, but the lead stories reflected the world…


  • S&P 500 After COVID-19
     Author(s): Leo Chen, Ph.D. | Tue June 2, 2020

    Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - S&P 500 After COVID-19


    The S&P 500 Index is widely used as the benchmark for over $9.9 trillion in investments. After losing 35.4% in just a month, the index has rebounded 36.5% from its March 23rd bottom. These extraordinary numbers during extraordinary times are unlikely to continue after COVID-19’s impacts on…


  • COVID-19 Impacts & Philanthropic Opportunities: GGA Interview with Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon June 1, 2020



    Good Sunday Morning, and please take some time for a walk with your earbuds. We have for you a video call between Lydia Clements, director of the Georgia Grantmakers Alliance, and Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Fed: https://www.youtube.…


  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review (May 26, 2020 - May 29, 2020)
     Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun May 31, 2020



    The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team.


  • Hydroxychloroquine
     Author(s): | Sat May 30, 2020



    The Debate Over Hydroxychloroquine


  • Money, Taxes, Fed & COVID-19
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed May 27, 2020



    At the following link readers may download a PDF file of the May 15th Joint Committee on Taxation analysis of federal receipts attributable to the latest stimulus bill passed by the House: https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=5260.


  • Memorial Day
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon May 25, 2020



    “Originally, Memorial Day was known as Decoration Day, meant to honor the Union and the Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War. By the 1900s it had become a day to celebrate all American soldiers who died while serving in the military. It wasn't…


  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review (May 18, 2020 - May 22, 2020)
     Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun May 24, 2020



    The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team.


 

 

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