Since mid-March, 26 million more people have applied for jobless benefits in the U.S. The math from MUFG [Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group] chief economist Chis Rupkey would mean an unemployment rate of 20.6%. Rupkey points out the rate is closing in on Great Depression levels where a quarter of all jobs are lost.
Brian Sozzi for Yahoo Finance:
The wild cards sitting here today is how the market will react to finally receiving the economic dread it has come to expect since the health pandemic erupted in early March. And then, has the market bounced too hard from the March lows on the expectation of V-shaped economic recovery later this year that may not appear, given the realities of a post pandemic world?
“I think the expectation of market participants is that we’re in the Great Depression and that in a sense, the news can’t get much worse,” said BNY Mellon chief strategist Alicia Levine on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade… Rupkey notes the stock market fell 57.7% at the worst point of the Great Depression. The S&P 500 was only down 13.3% year-to-date through Wednesday’s close of trading.
At some point soon, the market could be forced into pulling off its rose-colored glasses. Sure, extraordinary stimulus from the Federal Reserve is a major backstop to equities as history has proven again and again. But for investors to completely ignore jarring information on the economy seems absurd.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, it’s greatly depressing alright.
Yes it is a Great Depression watching President DipShit make an ass out of himself every day!
Thanks for showing the world that you are a fuccking idiot! Biden 2020! Senility and stupidity for all!!
You are a Great Depression all by yourself.🤣
Another partisan pot shot DENIER denigrating and attacking the two hardest working teams in pandemic history is — President Trump and his C-19 Task Force.
Not well done, “dipshit”… 🖕🏼
Got any Lysol? Work smart, not hard.
It sounds like the author is getting a margin call on all his shorts.
When the corporate media starts using the word Depression, its really bad. An inspirational
song for the Millions of comfortable Americans about to experience a downgrade in lifestyle..
Headlines like these are why I’ll neither contribute to nor whitelist MDN.
Its yahoo finance title. Dont shoot a messenger.
Yes, but it has no place on an Apple-centric news blog. 😒
The most important issue world over BELONGS EVERYWHERE…
A great depression would only be the beginning. Are we going to let government destroy our society? Here in California, Newsom-Democrat most likely won’t open us back up for another 2 years if he gets his way. He is like “We cant open up without 100% testing. That will never happen anytime soon. And even if it does, what about every other state and country in the world? So we are going to shit then. This experiment has FAILED. Lord help us because our pols won’t.