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04/04/2020

The US Breaks Another Unwanted Record: Weekly Unemployment Claims

Last Friday 3.28 million was the most important number. It was a new record for US unemployment claims. Dwarfing the previous high of 695,000 claims back in 1982. The first significant statistical indicator of just how bad this ‘corona’ recession will be...

Sam Volkering

03/04/2020

The Real Impact of Economic Shutdowns: If You Get Rid of People, You Solve the Problem

We need to consider what impact the restriction of human movement and economic shutdowns really has. That’s because it’s pretty likely that again in our lifetime, we’ll have to deal with another pandemic. This isn’t the first one we’ve had to deal with.

Carl Wittkopp

03/04/2020

Have Aussie Lithium Miners Bottomed? ASX Lithium News Wrap

We suggested at the start of the year that Aussie lithium miners were approaching a bottom. But, COVID-19 chaos roiled markets and pushed the share prices of a number of Aussie lithium miners further south. This time, we look at what’s happening in the lithium space...

Sam Volkering

02/04/2020

The Real Debt Bubble Set to Pop Next: The Future of the Aussie Market

As Vern notes, there’s fundamental economic change afoot. How this all shakes out is going to have immediate impact on global industry, but it’s also going to drastically change the future that we thought was coming.

Ryan Clarkson-Ledward

01/04/2020

We’re in the Midst of One Big Experiment

As we’re currently seeing, governments and central banks around the world are undertaking a giant experiment. In the words of our Prime Minister, they’re trying to ‘pause’ the economy. Pumping billions or even trillions of dollars into industries to survive the collapse in demand.

Ryan Dinse

31/03/2020

What Happens Next? Is the Six-month ‘Job Keeper’ Hiatus a Time Bomb?

Is the economy so royally stuffed that the six-month ‘Job Keeper’ hiatus is merely a time bomb set to explode later on?

Lachlann Tierney

30/03/2020

Dark Omens from China: The Threat to Physical Cash Ramps Up

Tobias Adrian says: ‘Cash, the physical object, is now potentially contagious but cash, the financial asset, is still a safe option.’ Indeed, China started confiscating and sterilising the physical object in question.

Sam Volkering

27/03/2020

How to Prepare for the Pain Set to Come Through Unemployment

As we’ve been warning, the pain is set to come through unemployment. Which we’re now starting to see. Next step will be recession. Expect that pretty soon when the economy contracts officially. And then there will be corporate failures.

Sam Volkering

26/03/2020

The Real Pain is Yet to Hit: More Market Pain to Come

The impact that has on economic output is devastating. And while the markets have just jumped, the real economic pain of all this has not even come close to hitting as it should.

Ryan Clarkson-Ledward

26/03/2020

Banks or Fintechs — Which Is the Better ASX Investment Right Now?

It’s an ASX stock market meltdown unlike anything we’ve seen in decades. A sell-off that is as extraordinary as it is frightening. However, it is also an opportunity. We haven’t seen stocks this cheap for a long time...