August 25, 2025 Judging by the jobs numbers for the past three months, the markets are calling for a rate decrease by the Federal Reserve at their next meeting in the middle of next month. Certainly, long-term rates have been falling as a reaction to the weakening job situation and in anticipation of the Fed’s […]
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August 19, 2025 One week after discussing the importance of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve’s tenuous position, the economy received somewhat of an “aftershock.” Rarely do we use the word aftershock when discussing the economy. It is quite often that we are subjected to economic shocks, many of which are surprises such as natural […]
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August 12, 2025 This week the markets are still digesting the plethora of economic events which occurred during the last week of July and August first. However, there is no time to catch our breath as a new month of data starts this week with readings on inflation. We have had some good inflation readings […]
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August 5, 2025 The economic trifecta has come and gone. Though the markets are likely to continue to react to the news, we are here to report the results of our three big economic events. First the government released the initial measure of economic growth for the second quarter of the year. The Gross Domestic […]
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July 29, 2025 Every month we have important economic data releases and events. But only a few times per year do we have the most important releases lined up during the same week. Our definition of a trifecta is a week in which we have the first reading of economic growth for a quarter (Second […]
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July 22, 2025 It has been a busy month with regard to economic news. We started the month with the passage of a huge tax and spending bill and the release of a stronger-than-expected jobs report. These events were followed almost immediately with additional announcements of increased tariffs to be levied upon several countries. Of […]
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March 25, 2025 The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee met last week and as expected, they did not lower or raise their benchmark interest rate. Despite evidence of a softening of the economic climate, they choose to sit back and wait to see what the effects will be as certain new policies are implemented by […]
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February 11, 2025 By all rights, we should have seen extreme market volatility during the past several weeks. After all, we have a new President implementing many new initiatives – from back to the office for federal employees to a constant threat of tariffs toward various countries. Yet, the stock and bond markets have been […]
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