The Employment Picture
April 5, 2022 Between the Federal Reserve raising interest rates and the war in Ukraine, it becomes harder to focus upon the day-to-day economic news which tell us how the economy is reacting to these stimuli. There is no more important economic data than the monthly employment report, as the economy’s ability to produce jobs […]
Read MoreThe Time Has Come
March 15, 2022 The long-awaited meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is upon us. By Wednesday afternoon we will know how large the Fed’s first move will be. As we have mentioned previously, it appeared that a .50% increase in the Federal Funds and Discount Rates were a chinch just a few weeks […]
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The First Jobs of 2022
February 8, 2022 If we called 2021 the “year of jobs,” the next question is, what will 2022 deliver as an encore? On Friday, the markets received the first important data of 2022—the January jobs report. Coming on the heels of the late January meeting of the Federal Reserve, you can be sure both the […]
Read MoreFed Meeting This Week
January 25, 2022 The importance of each monthly meeting of the Federal Reserve Board ebbs and flows in relation to the economic environment surrounding each meeting. When the pandemic first hit and major parts of the economy shut down, all eyes were on the Fed as they came to the rescue. Since that time, each […]
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Happy Holidays
December 21, 2021 Thanksgiving and Chanukah are over. Now Christmas, Kwanzaa and the New Year is upon us. The celebration of holidays has certainly changed during the past two years. But the meaning of these holidays have not changed, and before we get into the economics of the day, we wanted to wish our readers […]
Read MoreA Stark Reminder
December 14, 2021 During our economic commentaries over the past three decades, we have been consistent in one area of advice – you can never predict the future. Thus, though you will see many predictions by eminent market analysts in our newsletters, we must constantly remind ourselves of this unshakeable maxim. The COVID pandemic represents […]
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