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I trust Dave Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff. He’s been a perpetual speaker at my SIC conference for at least 10 years. Dave is screaming recession every chance he gets, but he is not a perma-bear by any means. He’s been bullish at the right times in the past. Dave turned uber-bul...

The fiat money quantity is comprised of fiat money both in circulation and available for circulation, being parked at the central bank in the form of the reserves of depository institutions. The expansion of US$ FMQ since 1960 is shown in the chart below. [i] Before the great financial ...

Given the volatility of equity markets, many investors are on the lookout for new fixed-income opportunities. As such, fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown in popularity as investors have increasingly added them to their portfolios. For insight on the expanding use of these v...

It's old news by now, but Thursday's Q4/18 GDP report came in a bit stronger than expected (+2.6% vs +2.2%), and growth for the calendar year 2018 (3.1%) was the strongest in more than a decade, and stronger than the 2.3% average annual growth rate of the current economic expansion. However, t...

So, as I am known to do, I will peruse various postings for something interesting and then write about it. And, while I cannot say what GATA writes is “interesting,” I can say it always provides fodder for presenting why so many do not understand the gold market. In its latest ...

Early in May 2013, the word "taper" exploded into the mainstream. It was everywhere, scarcely an article written or news story pieced together which hadn't included the term (even though Ben Bernanke never actually said it ). The so-called tantrum spread like wildfire simply because of what i...

George Selgin is the director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia, and a returning guest to show. For this special live episode, George joins Macro Musings to talk about his new book, *...

As we head deeper into the year, the U.S. economy continues to grind slowly forward despite trade concerns and Brexit worries. Markets have rebounded from their Christmas Eve lows, and the Fed has signaled that rate hikes are on hold for several months. Does this mean the all-clear has been so...

I've been working on the follow-up book to Shut Out. Some version of this graph will probably be in it. It shows that the deep drops in equity values didn't come from the disastrous September 2008 Fed meeting after the Lehman Brothers failure. They came during the period when the Fed began pay...

By Landon Whaley There has been a ton of ink spilled (digital and literal) on speculation about changes to the Federal Reserve's policy and the timing of those changes. But despite all this coverage, no one seems to be discussing the balance sheet. No matter what the Fed does (or doesn't...