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04 May 20
FOCUS: Paul Krugman | Crashing Economy, Rising Stocks: What's Going On?
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "What's bad for America is sometimes good for the market."
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "What's bad for America is sometimes good for the market."
What’s bad for America is sometimes good for the market.
he economic news has been terrible. Never mind Wednesday’s G.D.P. report for the first quarter. An economy contracting at an annual rate of almost 5 percent would have been considered very bad in normal times, but this report only captured the first few drops of a torrential downpour. More timely data show an economy falling off a cliff. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting an unemployment rate of 16 percent later this year, and that may well be an underestimate.
Yet stock prices, which fell in the first few weeks of the Covid-19 crisis, have made up much of those losses. They’re currently more or less back to where they were last fall, when all the talk was about how well the economy was doing. What’s going on?
Well, whenever you consider the economic implications of stock prices, you want to remember three rules. First, the stock market is not the economy. Second, the stock market is not the economy. Third, the stock market is not the economy.
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