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by Holger Zschaepitz "Eurozone #inflation hits record high at 4.9% in Nov since records began in 1997." Related Datasets Activity - Global - OECD - Main Economic Indicators - Key short-term indicators -...

by Cristian "Total bear market for per capita beef consumption. Dropped almost 6% in the last 12 months. The country's per capita beef consumption fell three kilos over the last year according to CICCRA" #Argentina Related Datasets Activity - Argentina - MAGyP - Cattle...

By Luciano Abrabaam @Lucianoabrahamm "Incredible accomplishment by [President Ricardo] Lagos" Related Datasets Labour & Income - Chile - Income Inequality (Gini Coefficient) - Yearly Activity - Global - World Bank - World Development Indicators - Gross Domestic...

By Ben Casselman @bencasselman "One big factor in inflation: We're still spending way more on stuff than before the pandemic. Retail sales up 1.7% in October, and more than 20% above prepandemic levels (not adjusted for inflation)." "Compare that to restaurant spending, which was flat in October and is basically on its pre-Covid trend line. And restaurant sales have held up better than many in-person services, thanks to takeout." "This isn't just about rising prices, either. Even in inflation-adjusted terms, retail sales are way above their prepandemic trend." Related Dataset Activity - USA - Census Bureau - Retail Sales -...

by David Beckworth > Just a reminder that the rest of the world is still rapidly buying dollars-denominated assets from United States. Related Datasets Monetary - Global - FRED - Rest of the World Total Financial...

by Jeroe Blockland > Germany's producer prices rose a whopping 14.2% in September. Related Datasets Inflation - Germany - Destatis - Producer Prices - Industrial...

By Martin Rozada @MartinGRozada "Using October's inflation to estimate the Poverty Line, we project a poverty rate of 40.6% for th May-October of 2021 semester. Confidence interval at 95% from 39% to 42.2%." Related Dataset Labour & Income - Argentina - UTDT Poverty...

by Ross Hendricks "How can we justify a 10-year Treasury yield of 1.5% with inflation running well over 5%? The answer: producer inflation running even hotter. When producers can't pass inflation to consumers, deflation is coming. " Related Datasets Inflation - USA - BEA - Consumer Prices [Inflation - USA - Producer Prices...

by Charlie Bilello "US Export Prices increased 18.1% over the last year while Import Prices increased 10.7%." #United States Related Datasets BOP - USA - BLS - Export and Import Prices...

By John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch "NEW: Covid cases, hospitalisations & deaths on the rise again across Europe, with rates of all three metrics surpassing the UK in many countries Starting in the west: Belgium, Netherlands & Germany in particular experiencing sharp increases in not only cases but ICU & deaths too." Related Dataset Misc - Global - OurWorldInData Coronavirus Dataset -...

by Mohamed A. El-Erian "Good morning. #UK inflation data are out: Per the @FT chart, consumer prices in January rose at an annual rate of 5.5%, slightly above the 5.4% that was both the median forecast and last month measure. Core CPI #inflation was 4.4%, up from the prior 4.2% and just above consensus." Related Datasets Activity - Global - OECD - Main Economic Indicators - Key short-term indicators -...

By Max Roser @MaxCRoser "It's been a reality for a long time that trade-adjusted CO2 emissions decline in high-income countries. But people still ask me whether there is any country that ever achieved this!" Related Datasets Misc - Global - CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions per capita Activity - Global - World Bank - World Development Indicators - Gross Domestic...

By Gabriel Caamaño @GabCaamano "I had forgotten to share this previously. It's clear that, as has been said, since the reopening after the second wave, the economy is being boosted by services recovering from the pandemic. Goods, already in pre-pandemic levels, have been stable for a few months." "This will continue in September and October (last activity data, EMAE, is from August). Therefore, it is clear that this is a relay race that can't be perceived from the aggregates, and even pre-2018 and 2019 BoP crisis levels are far away." Related Datasets Activity - Argentina - Activity and Employment in Goods and Services Activity - Argentina - Activity and Employment in Industry and Construction and Other...

By Jason Furman @jasonfurman "Consumers get all of the attention but a much bigger reason the economy is not back to normal is that business fixed investment (e.g., purchases of structures, machinery, intellectual property) remains well below where it should have been." Related Dataset Activity - USA - BEA - Gross Domestic...

by MacroMarketsDaily Newsletter "Canada's manufacturing sector has been struggling lately, especially in price-adjusted terms #CAD" #Canada Related Datasets Activity - Canada - STATCAN - Manufacturing...

by Mike Bird "Even as consumer prices surge across much of the world, and massive rises in import costs, Japan simply WILL NOT countenance any inflation. Outright refusal. No dice. https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/11/20/the-case-of-the-curiously-quiescent-inflation-rate" #Global Related Datasets Prices - Global - OCDE - Consumer Price...

By Caleb Watney @CalebWatney "Interesting look at the employment share in various subsectors of "high tech" from 1978 - 2019." Related Datasets Activity - Argentina - Ministerio de Trabajo - High Tech Employment Activity - USA - Census Bureau - High Tech...

By Damian Di Pace @DiPace4 "Mother's Day 2021: retail sales increased 42.1% YoY, average spending was $3776. Top performer was the Restaurant business, where inflation-adjusted sales increased 82.6% YoY after a strict quarantine. " Related Datasets Activity - Argentina - CAME - Retail Sales Index - Quantity - Monthly Activity - Argentina - INDEC - Supermarket Survey - Monthly Activity - Argentina - INDEC - Shopping Mall Survey -...

by Paul Krugman "With Kevin McCarthy blaming Biden for labor shortages, a question: have any of the people who blamed enhanced unemployment benefits for labor shortage conceded that they were wrong?" #United States Related Datasets Labor & Income - USA - BLS/BEA - Labour Force Participation and Unemployment...

By Agathe Demarais @AgatheDemarais "A historical perspective on trade and globalisation... World's merchandise exports have grown from ~5% of global GDP in 1950s to 20-25% currently. Average tariffs rate has been declining for three decades almost everywhere; United States among only exceptions." Related Datasets BOP - Global - World Bank - Trade - Trade as a Share of GDP BOP - Global - World Bank - Trade - Mean Weighted Tariff...

"Argentina in the last 50 years: Drop in GDP in 21 years (42% of years in recession), Drop in GDP per capita in 23 years (46% of years). Source: World Bank Data" "For some perspective: Second worst performer in the region (Venezuela is first). Source: OurWorldInData, Change in GDP per capita 1970-2018, in international $ and constant prices" Related datasets: Activity - Global - World Bank - World Development Indicators - Gross Domestic Product Activity - Global - Penn World Tables -...

by The Market Ear "IMOEX -45%.... deep value?" Related dataset: Financial - Russia - Equity Index -...

by Holger Zschaepitz "OOPS! German inflation accelerates to 5.3% in Dec vs 5.1% expected and highest since 1992." Related Datasets Activity - Global - OECD - Main Economic Indicators - Key short-term indicators -...