El-Erian Fears "The Fed Is Losing Credibility" As Dudley Warns "Hope Is Not A Strategy" It's been a lousy year for the monetary wonks at the...
As Matt Yglesias recently pointed out, the term ‘panic’ has a negative connotation: I’m not going to quibble with Yglesias’s claim, as he correctly describes how...
Here's One (More) Reason Inflation Could Accelerate Through Mid-2022 Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, It’s no secret that pandemic-related government policy is...
At the start of the pandemic, many of the lower paid workers lost their jobs, which raised the average wage for people who were still working....
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday morning that prices rose 6.2% on a year-over-year basis in October. That’s the highest YOY rate since December 1990 when the...
The Build Back Better Act, while still not a done deal, now has a path toward passage in the House of Representatives, with a vote expected...
Released today, in The International Economy symposium: “At some point, the federal stimulus checks will stop coming. Consumer sentiment could continue to be affected by fear...
"The Heat In Blistering Inflation Will Make The Fed Start Sweating": BofA Wall Street expected a beat, but today's "blistering" CPI was an overheating "shock" and...
Billionaire Henry Cheng Kar-shun is sinking HK$316.4 million (US$40.6 million) to take full control of pay-TV operator i-Cable Communications to turn around 13 years of losses...
Some call it the accordion effect while others refer to it in terms of a bullwhip. Whatever the terminology, the supply chain mess has created a...
- by New Deal democratI normally do not pay much attention to producer prices, but with the huge increase in spending earlier this year and the...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October jobs report, released November 5, provides generally positive news with total nonfarm payroll employment increasing by 531,000 compared to an...
Why Kolanovic Expects Stocks To "Continue To Climb The Wall Of Worry" Another week, and another round of pep talk from JPM's resident permabull-cum-value preacher, Marko...
It is one of the most important results to look for, a payroll cue which opens up the question to much bigger issues. A recession or...
The employment release for October provided lots of interesting facts. First employment growth is faster than anticipated, and second was faster in September than originally estimated....
The rise in the index of aggregate hours since July is equivalent to adding 498,000 private sector jobs a month The post Economy Adds 531,000 Jobs...
Supporting youth involvement in climate policymaking helps keep sustainability at the top of governments’ priorities.
The US economy downshifted sharply in the third quarter, based on last week’s initial estimate of gross domestic product (GDP). Is that a warning sign for...
Last year did not end on a sound note. The initial rebound after 2020’s recession was supposed to be a straight line, lifting upward for the...
VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Volatility Index. It’s a weighted mix of the prices for a blend of S&P 500...
BlueCrest, Balyasny, ExodusPoint "Ground" Traders Over Maximum Bond Losses Over the weekend, we reported that in the aftermath of last week's staggering, 6-sigma bond moves which...
Entrepreneurial businesses acknowledge and understand the inevitability of boom-bust cycles in the Fed-manipulated economy. But they refuse to be defeated or even deterred. They find the...
The best consumer discretionary stocks can help boost investment returns during good economic times. Check out these consumer stocks. The post 5 Best Consumer Discretionary Stocks...
"Markets Are Just Going To Break In Some Parts" - One Bank Sees Bond Market Turmoil Shifting To Stocks As we noted earlier today, a huge...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest ranking indicates that the coronavirus and heightened awareness about racism made a difference, but not necessarily a lasting one.
In response to overvalued stocks, consider shifting your portfolio towards undervalued dividend-paying blue-chip stocks.
There is no “decoupling”, at least there hasn’t been yet. Why would this time end up any different? The history of the term has itself changed...
While the GDP release dominated the news, we got new looks at economic activity and price pressures on Friday (and monthly GDP today). First, economic activity...
While the GDP release dominated the news, we got new looks at economic activity and price pressures on Friday. First, economic activity according to some key...
In Jim’s review of the Q3 advance release, he noted disappointments in residential investment. What is also worrying is the deceleration in real business fixed investment...