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Fear returned to the financial market this week as investors worried that a March 1 trade deadline for the U.S. and China wouldn’t be met. This resulted in a spike in stock market volatility and a pullback in the major U.S. averages. While many participants fear a worst-case scenario, t...

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." "The Captain" (Strother Martin), "Cool Hand Luke" (1967, Warner Bros - Seven Arts) Ever since the end of 2018 going right into today as I type, there have been two words repeated ad nauseam across the entirety of the mainstream bus...

By Brian Riedl In Foreign Affairs , economists Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers take on "deficit fundamentalists" and assert that "it's time for Washington to put away its debt obsession." To which even casual observers may respond, "what debt obsession?" In the past two years, the P...

When investors’ nerves are wound tight, it doesn’t take much to set off an emotional reaction which can lead to a major short-covering episode. We got a small taste of that after the 1% pullback in the S&P 500 Index (SPY) on Thursday, as the long frustrated bears were heard g...

By Jill Mislinski Note: We've updated this commentary with data through the February 8th market close. The yield on the 10-year note ended February 8, 2019, at 2.63% and the 30-year bond closed at 2.97%. Here is a table showing the highs and lows of yields, and the FFR since 2007 as ...

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By Robert Christian, Senior Managing Director, Head of Research, K2 Advisors®, and Brooks Ritchey, Senior Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Construction, K2 Advisors® Market volatility returned with a vengeance towards the end of 2018, with numerous uncertainties invoking mem...

The global economies are in a synchronous slowdown. Unfortunately, there is not much more that the BOJ, Bank of China, ECB, Fed and all other major monetary bodies can do at this point. Interest rates are low, and we are not suffering from a lack of money or liquidity. While all of this may ...

The Federal Reserve's recently communicated change in its outlook for monetary policy has led to concerns that the Fed is overreacting to market volatility, or worse, succumbing to political pressures. However, we believe there is a more compelling reason for the dovish shift. Policymakers a...

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, ...