After three months in a row of hitting new all-time highs, money supply growth slowed in March, dropping to a 10-month low. This slowdown, however, does...
Morgan Stanley: This Is The Biggest Threat To The Red-Hot Global Recovery By Chetan Ahya, Morgan Stanley's Chief Economist and Global Head of Economics A year...
The Fed Is Going To Make A Mistake Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Well, that didn’t work out as planned. Last week, we said: “Notably, the...
This Is Not The Inflation You Are Looking For, Move Along "This is not the inflation you are looking for. Move along." In recent weeks a...
Despite Surging Inflation, The Bulls Shake Off Weakness - Market Review And Update
The 'Take This Job And Shove It' Recession Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So hey there Corporate America, the Fed and your neofeudal...
Here Comes A Big Miss In Retail Sales Bank of America's economists have been on a roll in the past three months. Back in February, the...
The Issue: The expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in 2020 and 2021 through the COVID-19 pandemic has come in fits and starts, with benefits increasing...
Few Canadians have devoted more effort to fighting inflation than Stephen Poloz. He conducted much of the research that persuaded his bosses at Bank of Canada...
The US Consumer Price Index surged in April, topping estimates by a wide margin. The question is whether this is the start of an inflationary wave...
The prospect of tighter monetary policy knocked shares down and the stock market extended… The post US stocks suffer biggest slump in at least 11 weeks...
The food industry is on the brink of a decade of profound change. Unparalleled growth in plant, micro-organism, and animal-cell based alternatives has the potential to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused historic economic pain and hardship for families and households in the US. But much of this pain has been felt unevenly...
Today’s digression will be about prices. In particular, why and how they are rising and what this means to your portfolio. My preface is...
Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution by Steven Kamin (AEI), formerly Director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board. The views...
By Thomas Cooley and Peter Rupert The BLS announced that payroll employment increased by 266,000 in April. Some had (thought/hoped/wished) the economy would add something like...
On April 22nd President Biden kicked off a virtual Leadership Summit on Climate by declaring that the US will cut its global warming emissions in half...
Soar Above Hubris and Overconfidence To Fortify Your Wealth "Neither Bull nor Bear" A growing deflationary hurricane is churning off the coast. At the same time,...
Today’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) reports an all-time high number of job openings, surging to 8.1 million for the end of March.
The Issue: Although reported rates of hunger during the pandemic have come down since reaching a peak in December of 2020, hunger is likely to remain...
The latest batch of hiring data has reignited fears that the COVID-19 crisis will impact women’s job prospects more harshly than men’s, causing the recovery to...
The Butterfly Effect Re-Setting The Global Paradigm Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The shift of paradigm centred on the U.S. pivot away from West...
A Golden Future: Visualizing The Economic Case For The Barbarous Relic Throughout history, people have revered gold as a sign of wealth and a store of...
Dollar Stores Dominate US Retail Store Openings The wildly uneven US economic recovery since the virus pandemic began in early 2020 has given rise to dangerous...
Huge miss. Whopping dud. Maybe it wasn’t nearly that bad?The consensus forecast had called for payroll growth in April 2021 of something like +980,000, in line...
Awash in “stimulus”, but none able to dent a semiconductor shortage which is purportedly the reason for production woes. In the US and many other places...
Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low. The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000...
Global equities gained 4.2% in April (MSCI AC World index in US dollar terms), with a variety of factors underpinning the rise: accelerating COVID-19 vaccination rollouts;...
Employers across America’s largest metro areas added nearly 453,000 workers to their payrolls in March. This marked the largest monthly addition to job totals in the...
Staple Theory is a weekly look at Canada’s resource economy and the forces that shape it. Read it first in the FP Economy newsletter. Quebec Premier...