The market is selling off Thursday ahead of Powell’s keynote speech tomorrow morning at 10am EST at Jackson Hole. The odds of a 25 basis point cut on September 17 have decreased from 92% a week ago to 73.5% today….
For years one of my favorite columns in The Wall Street Journal was Dan Henninger’s Wonder Land which he sadly discontinued after 23 years this January. So I’m taking over for the day because yesterday was a whopper! While Henninger…
The market was cruising along until a weak 20 year treasury auction in the middle of the day Wednesday sent interest rates soaring and stocks stumbling. Early Friday President Trump spooked markets once again by calling for a 50% tariff…
About an hour ago, the news broke that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a group of investors at a JP Morgan event in Washington DC that he foresaw de-escalation of the current trade tension with China as the situation was…
These kinds of monster rallies tend to show up during bear markets — when volatility is elevated and emotions are running high – Alfonso DePablos, “A Day For The History Books”, April 9 Wednesday’s historic rally can best be described…
[We’ll be] making a lot more stuff in America, high-tech manufacturing, security goods, autos, a lot more stuff across the industrial spectrum. If you create good jobs for people, they have an easier time forming a family, getting married, having…
Not many people know that Adam Smith’s primary target in The Wealth of Nations was Mercantilism, the reigning economic theory of the time. He called his book “an attack on the whole commercial system of modern Europe”. Mercantilism was focused…
Almost 100 years after the start of The Great Depression there is still a lot of debate about what caused it and why it lasted so long. But it’s almost certain that The Smoot-Hawley Tariffs and bad monetary policy played…
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria – John Templeton The election of Donald Trump last November was at first met with euphoria by investors. Tax cuts, streamlined regulation, improved government…