by Elyse Menger | Apr 23, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
We started wondering this week about some of the potential impacts if the now substantial unemployment persists after the stay at home orders are lifted. One possible effect is on mortgage defaults, and we created a crude index of risk based on a simple multiplication...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 16, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
During these uncertain times, data people do, well, what data people do: look for more data. We gather, collect, and analyze all the data that we can find. It comforts us, and it helps us ask the tough questions. We have been sharing what we can, specifically sharing...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 2, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
While precise data on the COVID-19 crisis are rather difficult to come by, and are often of rather suspect quality, there are some things that we seem to have learned. The virus is likely considerably more contagious than your typical seasonal flu, with steeply rising...
by Gary Menger | Mar 26, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data
A black swan event. We have all heard of it, but who could have imagined that the black swan would be a virus running amok, having graciously been given free airline tickets to a globally connected economy. Obviously, nobody saw this coming. On the plus side, we have...
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