It has been the nature of this recession and of the public reaction and of the government tactics to fight the virus that economic indicators have been put through their paces in a way we have never before seen. We see that in the [...]
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Robert Brusca
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Robert A. Brusca is Chief Economist of Fact and Opinion Economics, a consulting firm he founded in Manhattan. He has been an economist on Wall Street for over 25 years. He has visited central banking and large institutional clients in over 30 countries in his career as an economist. Mr. Brusca was a Divisional Research Chief at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY (Chief of the International Financial markets Division), a Fed Watcher at Irving Trust and Chief Economist at Nikko Securities International. He is widely quoted and appears in various media. Mr. Brusca holds an MA and Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. His research pursues his strong interests in non aligned policy economics as well as international economics. FAO Economics’ research targets investors to assist them in making better investment decisions in stocks, bonds and in a variety of international assets. The company does not manage money and has no conflicts in giving economic advice.
Publications by Robert Brusca
Global| Sep 21 2020Sharp Recovery in Belgian Consumer Index That Remains Quite Weak
- Global| Sep 18 2020
Canadian Retail Sales Get Back All Recession Losses Then Some
Canadian retail sales rose by 0.6% in July, a striking deceleration from their gains of 22.7% in June and 21.2% in May. Sales are now back to and above their pre-covid-19 levels; that virus that caused substantial backtracking in the [...]
- Global| Sep 18 2020
Canadian Retail Sales Get Back All Recession Losses Then Some
Canadian retail sales rose by 0.6% in July, a striking deceleration from their gains of 22.7% in June and 21.2% in May. Sales are now back to and above their pre-covid-19 levels; that virus that caused substantial backtracking in the [...]
- Global| Sep 18 2020
Canadian Retail Sales Get Back All Recession Losses Then Some
Canadian retail sales rose by 0.6% in July, a striking deceleration from their gains of 22.7% in June and 21.2% in May. Sales are now back to and above their pre-covid-19 levels; that virus that caused substantial backtracking in the [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2020
European Car Registration Comeback Falls Short
The graph clearly depicts two recent hammer blows to European car registrations. The first came in the wake of the emissions scandals in 2018. The second, of course, is the recent episode with the coronavirus, the ensuing recession, [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2020
European Car Registration Comeback Falls Short
The graph clearly depicts two recent hammer blows to European car registrations. The first came in the wake of the emissions scandals in 2018. The second, of course, is the recent episode with the coronavirus, the ensuing recession, [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2020
European Car Registration Comeback Falls Short
The graph clearly depicts two recent hammer blows to European car registrations. The first came in the wake of the emissions scandals in 2018. The second, of course, is the recent episode with the coronavirus, the ensuing recession, [...]
- Global| Sep 17 2020
European Car Registration Comeback Falls Short
The graph clearly depicts two recent hammer blows to European car registrations. The first came in the wake of the emissions scandals in 2018. The second, of course, is the recent episode with the coronavirus, the ensuing recession, [...]
- Global| Sep 16 2020
EMU Surplus Grows As Exports Rise Strongly
Trade flows are still depressed compared to what they previously were doing. Year-over-year exports and imports are contracting at about a 10% or so pace while previous to the recession export and import growth rates had been in a [...]
- Global| Sep 15 2020
ZEW Macro-expectations Reach for the Sky
Meanwhile, back on earth, conditions remain weak and mixed ZEW expectations rose in September in five of the six countries surveyed; the United Kingdom was the exception. Current conditions improved everywhere up and down the line but [...]
- Global| Sep 14 2020
EMU IP Continues Its Strong Rebound...Can It Continue?
There are at least two stories on how to look at the evolution of IP in the EMU. One is to note the sharp ongoing rebound that is clearly depicted in the table as well as in the chart. The other is to note how, despite this recent [...]
- Global| Sep 11 2020
German Inflation Stays Down
Inflation is remaining low globally in the wake of the coronavirus-induced recession. The one exception is that oil prices have flared but now they also are turning lower as the initial recovery spurt in growth is giving way to more [...]
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