Inflation vs. Deflation: What’s the Bigger Threat?
While inflation has been on the minds of millions of Americans in recent weeks, and has dominated discussion among financial media analysts, there are still some pundits who are worried about the...
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While inflation has been on the minds of millions of Americans in recent weeks, and has dominated discussion among financial media analysts, there are still some pundits who are worried about the...
While perceptive consumers and investors have been watching prices increase slowly for months now, those prices increases are picking up, putting them on the radar screens of an increasing number of...
One of the biggest fears that Wall Street has is that the Federal Reserve will turn off the monetary spigot Having pumped trillions of dollars into the financial system over the past year, banks and...
If there’s one characteristic about US monetary policy that has stood the test of time, it’s that policymakers have almost always presented a united front Even when they may disagree with each...
If you don’t know what a reverse repo is, you can be excused for not knowing that Most people who follow markets don’t even know what they are or how they work, let alone follow trends in reverse...
With a Democrat in the White House and Democrats in control of Congress, it perhaps shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden is starting to pull out all the stops to raise taxes And one of his...
While fears of inflation are growing in the United States, inflation has shown itself to be a global phenomenon One of the major areas of concern in the US is housing prices, which continue to rise...
In the history of depressions and financial crises, the Great Depression ranks right up there as the worst crisis to hit the modern world Although some who lived at that time quipped that the...
Rising inflation has been in the forefront of many people’s minds today Prices at the pump and at the grocery store have been rising steadily for months Those in the market for a new or used car or...
It’s probably no surprise to most people that the United States is suffering under the burden of heavy debt Governments, corporations, and households are all more indebted than they ever have been...
There’s an old saying when it comes to investing that markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent We’ve seen the development of an “everything bubble” over the past several...
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States was considered the world’s hegemon It had the world’s strongest military, the biggest economy, and most importantly, the US dollar had become...
Many people don’t give interest rates a second thought Interest rates are what they are, or so they seem, and we deal with them accordingly But interest rates are among the most vitally important...
Recession is officially defined as two consecutive quarters of declining growth, with growth defined as gross domestic product (GDP) By that measure, the US economy definitely experienced a recession...
If you ask most investors what assets they hold, the overwhelming majority of investors, and most likely their assets, are invested in stocks and bonds These two commonly traded assets are easy to...
According to government statistics and the mainstream media, the US economy is in the middle of an economic recovery Stock markets are sky high, employment is supposedly improving, and the worst of...
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held its most recent meeting this week and, while it didn’t deliver any surprises on the surface, digging deeper into the Committee’s...