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We are going to begin this week with our annual value lesson. For those of our readers that have not read this before, we hope you enjoy this lesson and we hope that you gain some very keen insight as to what constitutes value and what constitutes individualistic, "because I can" mentality. Fi...

With the Federal Reserve's rate-hike plans on hold for the foreseeable future, US fixed-income markets continue to rally. Leading the across-the-board gains for bonds this year by wide margins: high-yield securities and long-term corporates, based on a set of exchange-traded funds through yest...

The first quarter of 2019 saw a marked change in the equity and bond markets from the very difficult conditions we faced in the last quarter of 2018. Jerome Powell, head of the United States Federal Reserve ("the Fed"), and his team of central bankers almost singlehandedly caused the steep mar...

Originally published on April 10, 2019 By Ansh Chaudhary The CEOs of some of the largest U.S. banks are in Washington today to testify to the House Financial Services Committee. The hearing was called by the Democrat-led House to review the impact of banks since the financial crisis ab...

By SchiffGold How are all of these unprofitable companies staying afloat and even making big splashes with media-hyped IPOs? Peter Schiff addressed this question, along with the supposed "failure" of capitalism, in his most recent podcast. The rideshare company Lyft ([[LYFT]]) had...

Stocks bounced back in the first quarter with the best quarterly start for the S&P 500 Index since 2009, up 13.5%, after a weak showing at the end of last year. We have said in the past that strength tends to beget more strength. LPL Research noted in a recent report that there have been...

By Sharon Fay Global equities rebounded sharply in the first quarter from the sell-off in late 2018. But conditions remain shaky and caution is warranted. Investors should pay close attention to policy-related risks when considering their allocations. During the quarter, the MSCI World I...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy It's all about the data, with the jobs report being front and center. But what happens when the data doesn't fit into the Treasury (UST) market's narrative? We've gotten a glimpse of this recently, so here are some observations. While the ...

In a previous post , I argued that Paul Volcker didn't put a stop to inflation by having the Fed systematically increase interest rates when commodity prices rose, and lower them when commodity prices fell. While commodity-price targeting, aka a "price rule" for monetary policy, had some prom...

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA In last week's "Behind the Markets" podcast, Liqian Ren and I were joined by two guests to discuss all things Federal Reserve (Fed) and the implications (or lack thereof) for the markets, and investment strategy and financial advice. Timothy Duy, economics profess...