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Here are the updated inflation numbers. Non-shelter core is down to 1.1%, shelter is still at 3.2%, and core CPI inflation is at 2.0%. As IW readers know, the reason this is important is that (1) shelter inflation is largely an imputed figure of rental values of owned homes that involve no cas...

A sign of the times when central banks make decisions based upon what is happening elsewhere in the world. “Fed Worried About Slowing Global Growth in Pausing Rate Increases” read the headlines in the New York Times . Jim Tankersley begins his article by writing “Fede...

We are going to begin this week with our annual value lesson. For those of our readers that have not read this before, we hope you enjoy this lesson and we hope that you gain some very keen insight as to what constitutes value and what constitutes individualistic, "because I can" mentality. Fi...

With the Federal Reserve's rate-hike plans on hold for the foreseeable future, US fixed-income markets continue to rally. Leading the across-the-board gains for bonds this year by wide margins: high-yield securities and long-term corporates, based on a set of exchange-traded funds through yest...

The first quarter of 2019 saw a marked change in the equity and bond markets from the very difficult conditions we faced in the last quarter of 2018. Jerome Powell, head of the United States Federal Reserve ("the Fed"), and his team of central bankers almost singlehandedly caused the steep mar...

By SchiffGold How are all of these unprofitable companies staying afloat and even making big splashes with media-hyped IPOs? Peter Schiff addressed this question, along with the supposed "failure" of capitalism, in his most recent podcast. The rideshare company Lyft ([[LYFT]]) had...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy It's all about the data, with the jobs report being front and center. But what happens when the data doesn't fit into the Treasury (UST) market's narrative? We've gotten a glimpse of this recently, so here are some observations. While the ...

In a previous post , I argued that Paul Volcker didn't put a stop to inflation by having the Fed systematically increase interest rates when commodity prices rose, and lower them when commodity prices fell. While commodity-price targeting, aka a "price rule" for monetary policy, had some prom...

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA In last week's "Behind the Markets" podcast, Liqian Ren and I were joined by two guests to discuss all things Federal Reserve (Fed) and the implications (or lack thereof) for the markets, and investment strategy and financial advice. Timothy Duy, economics profess...

Welcome to the weekly Tortoise credit podcast . I’m Greg Haendel, senior portfolio manager at Tortoise. With the premier of the final season of Game of Thrones only days away, we can finally say, “Winter is here.” For the financial markets, winter seems to have been ave...