How to Interpret This Week’s Economic News

How to Interpret This Week’s Economic News
A street sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange on March 9, 2020. Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Tim Shaler
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There are many recent anecdotes about new stock market participants having fun, playing with their money, while sitting at home during the lockdown, thinking they somehow have better insight than the scores of people who are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to publish their very best thinking for thousands of clients.

Tim Shaler
Tim Shaler
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Tim Shaler is a professional investor and economist based in Southern California. He is a regular columnist for The Epoch Times, where he exclusively provides some of his original economic analysis.
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