Real Estate the Difference Maker?
November 12, 2019 Many economists are predicting somewhat of a mild recession in 2020. However, their predictions are not unanimous and those who believe the economy will continue to grow are pointing to the real estate sector having the potential to keep us out of a recession. Certainly, we can see the economy has slowed […]
Read MoreElection Day
November 5, 2019 Today is Election Day. If you watch the news every day you might get the impression that the only important races are Federal. However, in the “off” years, there are a slew of local races and even a few state-wide races being contested. The local representatives you vote for today might become […]
Read MoreThe Fed Meets While Data Flows
October 29, 2019 This is a very busy week. We start with a very important financial release on Wednesday. The first reading of economic growth for the third quarter will give analysts an idea as to whether the economy is slowing as many have expected. And we expect that the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market […]
Read MoreThe Impeachment War
October 22, 2019 For months we have been talking about the possibility of the trade wars having an effect upon the economy and the markets. The start of the impeachment inquiry looks like it also will break out into a full-fledged war. Thus far, the markets have not reacted greatly to the salvos being fired […]
Read MoreThe Jobs Picture is Painted
October 8, 2019 With so many headlines using the terms impeachment and trade wars, we can often overlook the mundane release of economic data indicating to us how consumers seem to be weathering these political and international skirmishes. Thus far the economy seems to be holding up well with so many distractions going on. Yet […]
Read MoreA Busy Quarter Comes to an End
October 1, 2019 We are now three-quarters of the way through the year. We ended the quarter with an important reminder with regard to the markets. Simply put — you can’t predict the future. Take interest rates. Everyone was convinced that rates were going to continue to rise this year. Yet for most of the […]
Read MoreThe Fed Speaks Amid Chaos
The Die is Likely Cast
The Federal Reserve Board is meeting this week with an announcement to be made on Wednesday. Many times, there is a lot of drama and speculation surrounding these meetings. We believe the die will likely have been cast before the meeting happened. The markets truly believe that the Fed must lower short-term interest rates. After […]
Read MoreJobs Data To Influence the Fed?
September 10, 2019 The data is in and it looks like the Federal Reserve Board will likely lower rates again next week, as market analysts have predicted. There was plenty of data released in the past two weeks. First, we saw a revision of the estimate of the second quarter’s economic growth. While not final, […]
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