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In mid-2007, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund had to be bailed out Without getting too deep into technical details, the fund had significant exposure to the subprime mortgage market...
Key Takeaways The conflicting goals of maintaining maximum employment while stabilizing prices have become structurally at odds, leaving the Fed with no clear path forward Recent data...
Key Takeaways Increased geopolitical conflict and oil prices surging toward $120 per barrel have pushed up US recession probabilities Persistent energy shocks threaten to reverse progress on...
Rising debt levels and delinquency rates are reaching levels not seen in years, signaling worsening household financial stability The US national debt has reached nearly $39 trillion, creating...
It seems that in the media today there are more and more mentions of the dreaded R-word: recession With growing economic uncertainty, the threat of potential recession seems to be growing as...
For many people today, stagflation is something that we know only from history books or economics classes That combination of economic stagnation and problematic inflation seemed to characterize the...
With recent events in the economy, more and more Americans are feeling nervous about the well-being of their assets There’s an eerie feeling that we’re about to see some economic pain, and that...
After President Trump won his second term, the Monday morning quarterbacking began as to why And increasingly the economy appears to have been a key reason Trump won Many voters thought the...
Now that President Trump has won his second term in office, many people are wondering what his second term will mean for them Whether it’s abortion, the economy, or foreign policy, there are still...
Conventional wisdom has long held that lower interest rates are beneficial for gold and silver prices Conversely, higher interest rates are supposed to be detrimental to gold and silver...
Markets were rocked at the beginning of the week as fears of recession finally began to impact markets The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost over 1,000 points, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq...
The Federal Open Market Committee meets this week for its last interest rate decision before the summer recess While the universal consensus is that the Federal Reserve won’t touch interest rates...
Over the past few years, there has probably been no financial topic more widely discussed than inflation It’s a problem that has impacted every American household, and has impacted the standard of...
If you feel like the inflation of the past several years has left you behind financially, you’re not alone Over 97% of all salaries in this country have failed to keep up with inflation over the...
Six months ago, Wall Street was beside itself with glee in the expectation that the Federal Reserve would soon begin to start cutting interest rates Yet here we are nearly mid-year and, while other...
For those hoping for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, those cuts don’t seem to be coming any closer Inflation has dropped ever so slightly, to 34% year on year, and the unemployment rate...
More than anything else, stagflation defined the 1970s The portmanteau of stagnation and inflation was an economic catastrophe that completely dumbfounded the mainstream economic establishment at the...
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