Month: February 2020
Don’t Test, Don’t Tell
Covid-19 Cargo Cults
Join Us. No, Really.
The Fall of Wuhan
Kitchen Sink It
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Thanksgiving
Office Hours – 2.18.2020
Not Gonna Lie
Love in the Time of COVID-19
The Industrially Necessary Doctor Tedros
Options
That Escalated Quickly
Body Count
We Hanged Our Harps Upon the Willows
US Recession Monitor – 1.31.2020
Like other topics, Recession narratives rose somewhat in attention and cohesion, but less dramatically than other categories. We believe that this is because coronavirus outbreak…
Credit and Debt Monitor – 1.31.2020
The decline in the strength of the Q4 Narrative of a risk of “collapse” in credit markets continued in January. Uniquely among our macronarratives, cohesion…
US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 1.31.2020
Like other topics, Recession narratives rose somewhat in attention and cohesion, but less dramatically than other categories. We believe that this is because coronavirus outbreak…
Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 1.31.2020
Attention on Trade and Tariffs topics rose somewhat, but the inclusion of coronavirus language proved a distraction to the stories being told about them rather…
Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 1.31.2020
Attention on and cohesion of Central Bank macro narratives rose sharply in January. We believe that this is largely the result of a (hopefully!) short-term…