US Economy -- Recent Numbers Continue To Reverberate -- February 4, 2024

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There's hardly any reason to write any more about last week's numbers, but for the archives:

Carl:

Massive numbers:

Re-accelerating economy:

Burnt orange: color of University of Texas - Austin. 

By the way, at that same link, MarketWatch writers are now suggesting what I've been saying for quite some time -- no landing, hard or soft, but rather, a "touch and go."

If in hindsight we do have / did have a "touch and go," it looks like it occurred in 4Q23.

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The Sports Page

Link here.

The Philly Special.

Many analysts have since called the play one of the gutsiest play-calls in Super Bowl history.

The play was described by NFL Films as "a play that the Eagles had never called before, run on 4th down by an undrafted rookie running back pitching the football to a third-string tight end who had never attempted an NFL pass before, throwing to a backup quarterback who had never caught an NFL (or college) pass before, on the biggest stage for football."