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If you listen to central bankers’ public comments, they love to talk about how sound and secure their currencies are To them, loose monetary policy is nothing to worry about Just trust that the...
Everyone knows by now that inflation is rising, and the latest data from the Producer Price Index (PPI) make it clear that the growth of inflation could continue to accelerate in the future The...
Even if you’re an investor who understands that investing is often all about the long game, it can be tough to see asset prices move sideways, or even down We may understand intellectually that...
The 1970s are perhaps best known today for being a time of stagflation – economic stagnation and high inflation The combination of high unemployment and high inflation puzzled the Keynesian...
It’s somewhat of a truism that buying low and selling high is the key to making investment gains If only it were that easy We unfortunately have only the benefit of hindsight, not foresight, when...
For consumers and investors today, inflation is one of the problems at the forefront of their minds Prices of goods are rising everywhere they look, and there’s no telling when it will end...
The minds of everyone on Main Street are on inflation and the effect it is having on driving up their cost of living The minds of everyone on Wall Street are on the Federal Reserve and whether or not...
Months after the COVID vaccine became readily available to most Americans, the country has just reached the milestone of at least 70% of eligible Americans having received at least one shot But with...
Many people fear the specter of a recession Declining economic growth, higher unemployment, and inflation are all among the hallmarks of recessionary periods Businesses fail, workers fear job loss,...
Inflation is a topic that’s on the tip of most people’s tongues, and at the forefront of their minds Even if you’re a big saver and financially frugal, you can’t help but notice how prices...
With fears of high inflation continuing to mount, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to throw caution to the wind, maintaining its accommodative stance of monetary policy The Federal...
It’s safe to say that gold, and investing in gold, has a reputation for appealing to old people Many investors think of gold as a stodgy, old-fashioned asset that has lost its relevance in the...
In the annals of central banking economic literature, there is one name that looms large: Walter Bagehot As editor of The Economist from 1861-1877, he built up that publication’s reputation and...
To say that there’s a great deal of unease going on in markets today is a bit of an understatement Fears of renewed lockdowns are causing markets to yo-yo Rising inflation is harming consumers and...
One of the defining characteristics of President Trump’s tenure was the unmasking of how elites felt about the common American President Trump positioned himself as the champion of the ignored and...
It seems like there has hardly been a time when the national debt wasn’t an important national issue For most of our lives, the size of the national debt has been increasing, both in nominal...
With the latest inflation data having just recently been published, the Federal Reserve’s insistence that high inflation is merely “transitory” looks increasingly like a joke In fact, the...
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