Friday, October 9, 2020

Fast And Furious -- Fifteen Minutes -- October 9, 2020

0824.

First things first: quick! what is the first thing that strikes you about this story -- Louise Glück awarded Nobel Prize in Literature? Other than the fact her last name contains an umlaut. Link here

NYC broke: can't afford to pay its teachers the back pay they say they are owed. Link here.

You don't skip a debate if you're losing in the polls. Trump says "no" to next debate.

Yup. WSJ says the group most likely to get Covid-19 is least likely to die from it. Link here

Covid stats. Johns Hopkins numbers. WSJ.

Chips. Semi-conductor. AMD is in advanced talks to buy Xilinx. Link here

Social security: well, what do you know. Elections do count. Social security recipients to get "raise." Link here. With no inflation, there should be no jump in the COLA but, hey, it's an election year.

Lower for longer: 43% of economists don't see US gaining back lost jobs until 2023. WSJ survey

Lower for longer: anticipating prices will be lower for longer, OPEC is reconsidering plans to increase production. Link here

Lower for longer: EIA cuts oil price forecast. Rigzone. Predicting oil prices is a fool's errand.

Uncontained? NFL season at risk. Link here. Blame Tennessee. 

0838 and we're done.

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