Personal consumption, personal spending, rig count


Settling down as fiscal transfers subside, but still elevated:


Income falling faster than consumption is growing:

Real Personal Income less Transfer Payments

Transfer payments decreased by $70 billion in July, but were still $1.7 trillion (on SAAR basis) above the February level. Most of the increase in transfer payments – compared to the level prior to the crisis – is now from unemployment insurance.

However, there will be sharp decline in unemployment insurance in August.

Oil investment down and still falling a bit:

Jobless claims, corporate profits, Fed, COVID testing

Still over 1million new claims last week. This is seriously bad:

They had already leveled off well before the collapse:


As the carpenter said about his piece of wood:
‘No matter how much I cut off it’s still too short.’
They still have the interest rate thing backwards:


Testing is down as are new cases, just like the President said: