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Tag: Consumer Sentiment
Depending on where you live, you've had your hoodies and flannels out for several weeks or they are still gathering dust in your closet. Here in eastern Virginia, our fall clothes are finally going to make their debut this week after a spectacularly warm fall.
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The wait for the Fed to give us more insight into their tapering decisions ended last week, with the tapering set to begin sometime this year. With the Fed's help going away, the market will remove its training wheels. Will that lead to a crash or a sharp pullback like
Have we reached the end? Just as March 2020 marked the beginning of the COVID19 economic shock, March 2021 could go down as the end of the shock. As vaccine distribution hit critical mass, the weather turned nicer in the southern states, and yet another round of stimulus checks hit
There are a lot of opinions floating around about who caused what, when it changed, and what the future impacts will be. At SEM we choose to ignore those opinions and instead focus on the data. This week’s Chart of the Week will take a closer look at