With so much happening so suddenly, what are you reading to make sense of the Economy and markets.
Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
1–10 of 313 posts
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#2Not having much luck myself, I don't think anyone knows how to make sense of it. Its either going to be worse than the great depression or no big deal.
Have been scanning HN a lot for anything related to the economy and found little except for this post.
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#3The Bitcoin Whitepaper. [1]
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#4The fed used to provide a safe environment for someone to play the music for the game musical chairs. But now they just make their own music.
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#5I'm keeping an eye on initial jobless claims and BLS unemployment statistics. I'm concerned that it's a cascading effort as fewer workers means less spending means less earnings means fewer workers and the cycle continues. Obviously the government has levers to try to ease the pain (lower interest rates, pass stimulus bills), but it's not yet clear how sufficient these levers will be.
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#6I'm interested in pointers on this in general, not just wrt the current climate.
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#7I'm keeping an eye on initial jobless claims and BLS unemployment statistics. I'm concerned that it's a cascading effort as fewer workers means less spending means less earnings means fewer workers and the cycle continues. Obviously the government has levers to try to ease the pain (lower interest rates, pass stimulus bills), but it's not yet clear how sufficient these levers will be.
Yeah, that's a recession. But we'll probably see a lot of helicopter money going forward, and some sort of global New Deal in many countries after the virus is gone.
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#8The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back - https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/09/unemployment-coronaviru...
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#9https://voxeu.org/ for "research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists".
Re: Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
#10Some podcast recommendations:
-Freakonomics (https://freakonomics.com/) has been making some good episodes about different aspects of the current crisis. The latest episode is about the food supply market, the one before is about the $2 trillion aid package.
-Planet Money (https://www.npr.org/sections/money/), which was created in 2008 to help make sense of the finantial crisis, is obviously focused on the crisis. Expect 20-30 minute episodes about economic topics in the news (some of the latest episodes include "The Big Small Business Rescue" and "The Economics Of Hospital Beds")