Idealized “business cycles” don’t exist. Business cycle causes and consequences have long been debated in…
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Germany has been stung by the European Central Bank’s (ECB) quantitative easing (QE) missteps. Low…
Idealized “business cycles” don’t exist. Business cycle causes and consequences have long been debated in…
Paul Volcker and his Federal Reserve colleagues are lauded for “breaking the back of inflation”…
Stock market bubbles are best measured by how much stock prices rise above the fundamentals…
When voting and polling results don’t match political analysts’ expectations, political analysts quickly look for…
“The Fed caused 93% of the entire stock market’s move since 2008: Analysis” at Yahoo!…
Consumers intuitively know something that our central bankers still haven’t quite figured out: lower prices…
“Deflation” is good if purchases grow. Obvious to shoppers, people buy more when prices fall,…
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The myth of interest rates predicting equities just won’t die. It hasn’t been true for…
Fed-watching is foggy and frustrating, with predictions often wrong. Six insights help explain why. Understanding…
S&P 500 member revenue for 3Q2015 was flat from the prior quarter and down 5%…
Vanishing equity risk premiums are frequently debated. But why are they shrinking? Have investors stopped…
The Fed is in a bad spot. Conventional wisdom says rates are low. But it’s…
As markets grapple with Fed inaction, the year-long exchange rate spike – “liftoff lightheadedness” has…