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Why do economies collapse into recession in ways that seem so difficult to predict? Why do financial markets collapse into free-fall with timing that's so loosely related to market valuations? Much of the reason is that complex systems usually aren't linear. In a linear system, a given change ...

By Joseph V. Amato, President and Chief Investment Officer - Equities Slowing growth, low yields and geopolitical maneuvers are making for quite a spectacle. I spent a week in Japan recently, and although sumo contests weren't part of my itinerary, I did have a chance to watch and refl...

It’s easy to trip over trying to formulate a market narrative at the moment. One interpretation of the dramatic decline in global bond yields is that the smart money is de-risking their portfolios ahead of global slowdown and a rout in equities and credit. The ramp-up in the global trad...

By Christopher Diaz, CFA Yields on global bonds continued to fall this week as concerns over trade issues escalated and recent U.S. economic data disappointed. Chris Diaz, Co-Head of Global Bonds, discusses the potential implications for investors. Transcript Chris Diaz: U.S. Tr...

I recently discussed one of the biggest potential "flash points" for the financial markets today - corporate debt. What I find most fascinating is how quickly many dismiss the issue of corporate debt with the simple assumption of "it's not the subprime mortgage market." Correct, it's...

We're in the midst of a mini-replay of the drama surrounding Fed policy that played out late last year and early this year. Back then the market was telling the Fed that it was mistaken in planning two more rate hikes this year, but it took the Fed a bit too long to figure that out, and that i...

Jesse Felder, Founder of The Felder Report , joins us on SBTV and warns that current asset bubbles induced by policies of the Federal Reserve have been blown to epic Ponzi levels. Discussed in this interview: 04:07 Failure of Bear Stearns during 2008 financial crisis 08:20 ...

By Pater Tenebrarum Money Supply Growth Continues to Decelerate Here is a brief update of recent developments in US true money supply growth as well as the trend in the ratio of industrial production of capital goods versus consumer goods (we use the latter as a proxy for the effects o...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) piled on more bad news to the otherwise pleasing GDP headline for the first quarter. In its first revision to the preliminary estimate, the government agency said output advanced just a little less than first thought. This wasn't actually the substance of ...

The past year, 2018, is looking more and more likely to be the year of the peak in this last credit cycle. When I say credit cycle, I'm talking about overall credit. Based on the senior loan officer survey, which is a quarterly survey sent to US domestic banks asking about loan demand and th...