April 28, 2020 While our government officials are talking about re-opening at least parts of our economy, we are all wondering what that will actually mean. There is no doubt that we cannot flip a light switch and then get people to rush out and start partying in the streets. Not only could we not […]
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April 21, 2020 For those attempting to predict the length or the depth of the current economic slowdown, we have all turned into medical prognosticators. Every day charts depicting the growth of the virus are published. The growth started slowly and then accelerated with lines showing the number shooting straight into the air. But as […]
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April 14, 2020 As dismal as the March unemployment numbers were, we know that this is just a preview of what is to come. The question being bantered about by market analysts is — how high will unemployment become? Let’s take a look at the numbers. Let’s say 10+ million filed for unemployment in the […]
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April 7, 2020 Last week’s jobs report was not so much about how the economy is doing. We know the economy was doing moderately well coming into the month of March. It is during the month of March that things changed rapidly. Witness the weekly jobless claims reported late in March and early April at […]
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March 31, 2020 Each passing week, the measures which are implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus are placing strains on the American and world-wide economy. It is no longer the travel industry which is in the forefront. Now all industries are being hit — from retail to service industries. Those who are selling […]
Read MoreMarch 24, 2020 Believe it or not, we started the year quite smoothly. Yes, we were expecting some excitement due to the fact that we had a Presidential election coming our way. Little did we know that the primaries would take a back-seat to something much larger. It took just a few weeks to go […]
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March 17, 2020 This week’s meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee could be pretty exciting, or it could be something of a wash-out. Since the Fed decided to lower rates before the meeting took place and add a bond-buying program to inject liquidity into the markets, there may be no further action […]
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March 10, 2020 Even before we saw the jobs report, the Federal Reserve decided to step in with an “emergency” rate cut in response to the coronavirus crisis before their next scheduled meeting. Even though we have not seen many negative reports on the economy, the Fed saw what was on the horizon. The only […]
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March 3, 2020 Last week we asked why rates were so low. The question arises because the economy seems to be humming along quite nicely. Sure, there are headwinds. The latest headwind is the threat of the coronavirus. Not to play down this threat, but in the past several years the economy has withstood plenty […]
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February 25, 2020 This week we ponder an interesting question. At the beginning of last year, rates were headed higher and we were not supposed to see low rates again for quite some time. Of course, the market analysts were wrong, and rates fell as 2019 progressed. We kept hearing of the threat of recession […]
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