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Sentier Research has issued its estimate of median household income in the United States for December 2018, finding the typical income earned by an American household was $63,517 for the month, slightly down from the firm's initial estimate of $63,554 for November 2018. Sentier's revised, ...

As the stock market stabilizes from the devastating fourth quarter of 2018, investors must be wary of brokers pitching “risk off” trades. First, let’s define “risk-on risk-off.” It refers to changes in investment activity in response to global economic patt...

Total vehicle sales is one of many classic leading economic indicators of the business cycle. Vehicle sales historically peak preceding recessionary periods due to the relatively large sticker price of the good in the consumer basket, the sensitivity to interest rates, and the economic c...

Everyone hates LIBOR, until it does something interesting. It used to be the most boring interest rate in the world. When it was that, it was also the most important. Though it followed along federal funds, this was only because of the arb between onshore ((NYC)) and offshore (mainly London, s...

The major economies have slowed suddenly in the last two or three months, prompting a change of tack in the monetary policies of central banks. The same old tired, failing inflationist responses are being lined up, despite the evidence that monetary easing has never stopped a credit crisis dev...

First, we appear to be moving quite rapidly in the direction of a "state money only" system (i.e. full reserve banking), if the above chart is any guide. The chart is from an article by Jo Michell entitled " Misunderstanding MMT" published by "Critical Macro Finance."(Incidentally, that's not...

Transcript Kathy Jones: We ended 2018 with a cautious outlook on the bond market. Our biggest concern was that the Federal Reserve's series of interest rate hikes would reduce demand for bonds, especially bonds in the riskier segments of the market, like high-yield bonds; but recent...

Posted by Rob Waldner, Chief Strategist and Head of Multi-Sector on Feb 6, 2019, in Fixed Income Invesco Fixed Income shares its views on rates around the world US: Neutral. In the near term, we expect Treasury yields to be stuck between better-than-expected growth and a do...

I'm late, I'm late. For a very important date. No time to say hello. Goodbye. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. - The White Rabbit Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen stressed that the direction of the next policy move by the central bank should be driven by incoming economic data an...

Germany is a tough one to get around. Argentina falls into a bad recession, you can get by believing that's not particularly unusual or interesting. If its neighbor Brazil becomes shaky, you can still chalk it up to EM volatility. Italy is Europe's perpetual basket case. China's a little more ...