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It may be time to add exposure to inflation-protected U.S. government bonds ((TIPS)). Why? The Fed has confirmed its intent to be patient with its next rate move and may let inflation temporarily breach its 2% target. Along with a slowing but growing economy , we believe this makes TIPS an at...

Year-over-year, the United States economy grew at a 3.1 rate in 2018. On an annual basis, the US economy grew by 2.9 percent from 2017 to 2018. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the presidents of district Federal Reserve banks had forecasted that the US economy would...

SBTV picks the mind of Luke Gromen, founder of Forest For The Trees LLC , about an impending dollar crisis and what likely scenarios can destabilize the petrodollar in the coming years. We also asked him what his ideal monetary system would be if he got to choose it. Discussed in this int...

Even though the first quarter of 2019 is only two-thirds over, practically all of the private-sector decisions that will determine the level of economic growth from the first quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019 have already been made. Moreover, because of a statistical quirk, 8/9 of t...

Even if the Fed hadn't institutionalized perverse incentives to borrow and speculate in asset bubbles, the economy would still be generating far fewer winners than losers. If we scrape away the shuck and jive (a difficult task when the majority of what the media presents is shuck and jiv...

LIZ ANN SONDERS: Today, I want to tackle a more evergreen topic, which is the implications on the economy of a high and ever-rising burden of debt. But I want to first differentiate between the deficit and debt. Deficit - the budget deficit - is simply the differential between what's ...

Modern Monetary Theory, aka MMT, has hit the mainstream, and some Liberal politicians like AOC are giving it full-throated endorsements. I need to stop playing Mr. Politically Correct with this idea - it is dangerous, and we need to start saying that outright. Now, I've been generally fair o...

US stocks continued to rebound in 2019, generating the strongest performance for the major asset classes in February. Foreign stocks, high-yield bonds and US real estate investment trusts (REITs) also rose while investment-grade bonds in the US and abroad slumped. Equities in the US were the...

U.S. Federal Reserve Outlook For 2019: At Most One Rate Hike Q&A with John L. Bellows, Portfolio Manager at Western Asset Management You track the U.S. Federal Reserve ((FED)) very closely. What are your expectations for 2019? Our outlook for moves by the Fed relies on three ...

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...