Economist (US Macro), RDQ Economics

Conrad DeQuadros

Economist (US Macro)

RDQ Economics

RDQ Economics provides global macroeconomic consulting services with an emphasis on U.S. economic fundamentals and monetary policy.  
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Our views are driven by consistent application of classical economic and monetary principles and has generated superior anticipation of changes in the stance of monetary policy and of movements in economic growth and inflation.
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The founders of RDQ Economics—John Ryding and Conrad DeQuadros—worked together on Wall Street for a decade, in the independent research space for nine years, and have experience in central banking at the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England.  John and Conrad have worked closely with fixed income, foreign exchange, and equity traders and portfolio managers, which has enabled their analysis and advice to be tailored to a clientele that is focused on trading and investment decisions.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

United states Retailing / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>When America's Tweeter-in-Chief singled out Amazon yesterday for “doing great damage to tax paying retailers” adding “many jobs being lost!” he is correct, but President Trump is missing the bigger picture.  Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase the “gales of creative destruction” in his 1942 masterpiece <em>Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.</em>  Schumpeter understood that progress is a dynamic process that involves destruction in order to create.  The internal combustion engine all but destroyed the…</p>

When America's Tweeter-in-Chief singled out Amazon yesterday for “doing great damage to tax paying retailers” adding “many jobs being lost!” he is correct, but President Trump is missing the bigger picture.  Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase the “gales of creative destruction” in his 1942 masterpiece Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.  Schumpeter understood that progress is a dynamic process that involves destruction in order to create.  The internal combustion engine all but destroyed the…

The Shifting Retail Environment