Corporate Leverage

by | Apr 13, 2021 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes

April 13, 2021 Economists like to keep an eye on the amount of leverage amongst corporations.  When corporations take on huge amounts of debt in relation to their net worth, any economic downturn will be much more severe than it would otherwise be as corporations...

Corporate Cash

by | Apr 13, 2021 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes

April 13, 2021 Corporate cash holdings in the second and third quarters of last year as the government quarantine basically caused the economy to stop dead in its tracks.  Firms needed to raise money wherever they could to keep them going until such time as virus...