Time To Sell The News?
Global stock (and bond and real estate) markets have been on a tear this year, apparently in anticipation of three big events. And last week
Global stock (and bond and real estate) markets have been on a tear this year, apparently in anticipation of three big events. And last week
This is getting ridiculous. Every few days another country blows up, as their citizens take to the streets with little warning and no apparent interest
Pity the guys now running the Fed. They’ve inherited an economy that requires ever-bigger infusions of new credit and ever-lower interest rates to avoid financial
Critics of modern monetary policy have been predicting that the day would come when a central bank would cut interest rates (or at least promise
A few short weeks ago, the economy seemed to be growing, the trade war looked winnable and the Mueller Report appeared to take presidential impeachment
Rick Rule: The macro environment is pretty constructive for gold … Kyle Bass: China’s house is on fire; if you have money invested in Asia
After raising interest rates and getting slapped around by the markets last year, the Fed now appears to accept that future monetary policy can only
Not so long ago, London Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was one of the handful of must-read financial journalists. He probably still is, but since he disappeared
This was going to be the year when the other big central banks joined the Fed in “normalizing” interest rates and reversing the past decade’s
People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out
A quick recap of the past couple of months: Stocks plunge. The politicians, bureaucrats and bankers who depend on artificially-elevated financial asset prices start to
Looks like we just hit an inflection point. So far this morning: U.S. new home sales drop to more than 2-1/2-year low (Reuters) – Sales
Towards the end of economic expansions, interest rates usually start to rise as strong loan demand bumps up against central bank tightening. At first the
It’s long been an article of faith in the sound money community that the Fed, by bailing out every dysfunctional financial entity in sight, would
One of the things giving “data-driven” central banks wiggle room on their pledge to tighten monetary policy is the fact that there are several definitions
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