ECONOMIC ARTICLES

Are multiplex theaters even viable in the era of streaming and affordable big screen TVs, if studios crush the "theatrical window?"

Nationally, visits to "places of commerce" remained anemic. Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Nashville, which had been near the top, plunged to the bottom.

The hard Brexit has compounded pressures on many UK industries, but some key positives have started to emerge.

I’ve often joked that fretting over delusional price moves in individual stock names in a market Twilight Zone is akin to fretting over the desert choices on the Titanic’s dinner menu. Read more...

Bitcoin was trading at $57,000 when I posted the podcast last Sunday. Now, as I’m posting the transcript of the podcast, bitcoin is trading at $46,000, which makes one of my points.

Junk bonds still in la-la-land as investors chase yield – risks be damned.

Free money whipped consumers into a rollicking eight-month splurge on goods. There's nothing "pent up." And services are not a shoo-in for "pent-up demand."

In this 16-minnute MAMChat, MAM executives Egon von Greyerz and Matthew Piepenburg discuss the critical relationship between rising gold prices and negative real ( inflation-adjusted) yields. Throughout the 20th century, whenever the rate of CPI […]

From crisis to crisis, and even when there’s no crisis.

"L-shaped recovery" for mass transit. Per person, vehicle miles were already in long-term decline since 2003. Than came 2020.