Tuesday, 09 June 2020 12:39

The Economy is Suffering an Extraordinary Collapse in Demand

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The New York Times has published an interesting piece this week which argues that markets and investors are ignoring an ugly and disastrous reality: that the economy is suffering a huge and largely unprecedented collapse in demand. New data out of Europe and Japan, as well as US manufacturing demand, this week showed that demand fell sharply in May, a sharp contrast to the employment jump. The NYT argues that this systemic fall in demand will take time to play out, but that the huge decline in employment and change in behaviors will cause a rupture in demand that will play out over years.


FINSUM: The NYT piece is very bearish. We held off on covering it until new data was released overnight showing a big fall in demand.

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