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While fear of recession may be growing in some quarters, so too are fears of stagflation The very term brings back memories of the 1970s, with high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and general...
According to recent data published by the Federal Reserve, over 80% of Americans are worse off now financially than they were before COVID The top 20% of households are actually in slightly better...
If there was one hot topic that could define 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) would probably be it Since it has burst into the mainstream, AI has become a favorite issue to discuss, as both its...
The latest inflation report seems to underscore one of the problems with official inflation figures While the 32% headline inflation figure remains above the Fed’s 2% target rate, it doesn’t seem...
The Federal Open Market Committee decided at its most recent monetary policy meeting last week to pause rate hikes once again, leaving the target federal funds rate at 525-550% That was a move that,...
The concept of the US dollar failing seems so far-fetched that it almost seems outside the realm of possibility For nearly 80 years the dollar has been the world’s reserve currency, and it remains...
All eyes are on the Federal Open Market Committee once again this week, as the Committee meets again to discuss whether or not to raise the target federal funds rate The current target rate is...
Hyperinflation is something that no one wants to experience We all know about countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe, where hyperinflation has ruined economies and destroyed people’s standard of...
After Hamas’ attack on Israel, tensions in the Middle East have been rising The United States has, not surprisingly, given a significant amount of support to Israel And now the Biden administration...
Inflation is a silent killer As John Maynard Keynes’ famous quote about Lenin goes: “Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency...
For anyone who had hoped that inflation was a bad dream that was fading away, the latest inflation report poured cold water on those hopes While the official inflation rate remained steady at 37%...
Americans today hold trillions of dollars in retirement savings Much of that money is held in 401(k) accounts, the dominant form of employer-sponsored retirement account With the stock market’s...
With the past few years having been so turbulent, there was hope that 2023 would bring a return to normalcy After COVID, a disputed election, a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a year that saw both...
Political scandals rarely give rise to either winners or losers But in the wake of yet another probe into scandal-prone Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), there was a big winner, and it was… gold Yes,...
One of the pressing hot button issues of our time is the development and implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) Just a few years ago, the possibility of CBDCs even being developed...
Last week the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to take another pause in hiking interest rates, the second pause so far since it began hiking interest rates months ago While many in the...
Once again, the financial world will wait with bated breath to find out what the Federal Open Market Committee does this week The FOMC, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision-making...
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