A Unique Opportunity to Muni Issuers
The lowest trading volume in two decades has been leading investors to acquire more and more new local and state Muni issuances, even at low spreads. Executive Summary: If you are a municipal bond issuer, there is no better time to issue new bonds. The Muni bond market is red hot and ready to absorb…
Procurement and the Need for Racially Diverse Selection
It is common knowledge that the United States is currently more diverse than ever before. Just take a walk through any major city in the country – you will certainly see a mixture of all races, genders, ethnicities, and ages coexisting in peace. However, many businesses still neglect the idea that d…
Diversity and Inclusion and The Changing Corporate Landscape
Diversity and inclusion initiatives are evolving and becoming a critical element within many US corporations. It does not take much to see that organizations and employees are also embracing diversity now more than ever. Unfortunately, many companies have been left behind in this transformative peri…
US Pharma, Pfizer, and the first Vaccine
US pharma should be profiting tremendously from the newly discovered vaccine that will end the pandemic. While that appeared to make sense at first, a look at share prices shows the industry is not doing so well. Take, as an example, the firm who invented the first Covid-19 vaccine: Pfizer. It was a…
Unemployment III – Across Ethnic Groups
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted labor markets across the board but ended up damaging some industries more than others. While some ethnic groups are more prevalent in certain industries than others, the crisis led to a wider disparity in unemployment between Whites/Asians versus African Americans/Lati…
Unemployment II The Summer of Love and Job Creation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced 916 thousand jobs in March, confirming a bullish economic recovery. But this recovery has been uneven across sectors. Workers in construction, leisure and hospitality have been deeply affected by Covid-19, especially if compared to white collar professionals …
Online vs. Brick And Mortar Retail Recovery
Online sales grew substantially, while brick-and-mortar contracted slightly. Within online, Amazon continues to reign, but is losing space to other large retailers (such as Target, Walmart). Smaller shops moving online fared better than their peers stuck on the physical space alone. Across sectors, …
Covid-19 Recovery’s Lagging Indicators: Unemployment and Workers’ Participation in the Economy
Is the recovery just around the corner? 2020 was a devastating year. The US economy slid from “business as usual” to a severe lockdown within a matter of days last March. Analysts1 now disagree on when the US economy will have a strong economic recovery, or whether some lagging indicators2 may d…
GameStop, Reddit, Robinhood, Gen Zers, Warren and the SEC
What happened? – On January 25th. Reddit’s r/WallstreetBets allegedly incited investors to concertedly boost stock prices and put a squeeze in hedge funds’ short positions on GameStop shares. The squeeze forced funds to post billions in collateral as share prices soared 1,625% in a week. Young inves…
America’s COVID Recovery – A Macro Economic Analysis
America’s Covid crisis was a one in a hundred-year plague, a Black Swan event per se. It is important to take a hard look at this year, and what lays ahead in the coming months, across countries, industries, and demographics. Countries – If you went back in time, you would find it hard to believ…
