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With stocks priced at record highs far above the economic landscape and still rising, the economy is still receding below. We'll know at the end of January if the fourth quarter of 2019 was the worst of the past year, as I expect it will be. For now, we have to keep looking at numerous individ...

The Best Year For Labor Ever Even if the December NFP figure is a whiff, this will be one of the best years for employment in U.S. history. Average monthly job gains are running at 180,000, unemployment is at historic lows, wages are rising strongly, and the outlook for hiring is robust. ...

First of all, I want to wish everyone a healthy and prosperous new year as a new decade unfolds. The just-completed decade certainly ended with a bang, with the S&P 500 Index ([[SPY]]) up 31.49% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index ([[DIA]]) up 25.34%. One strategy that significantly...

By Frank Shostak Most economists are of the view that by means of economic indicators, it is possible to identify early signs of an upcoming recession or prosperity. What is the rationale behind this opinion? The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) introduced the economic indicat...

We're closing out the decade with one final look back on some of the top-performing markets, asset classes, and alternative investment funds over that time. Last up, the broad asset classes we track in our monthly Asset Class Scoreboard: US Stocks, World Stocks, Hedge Funds, Real Estate, Bon...

I made a lot of money in 2019, and so did my clients. I hope you did too. A 29% gain (or more) isn't as rare as you might think. Since 1928 (92 years), there have been 20 instances where the market performed as well, or better, than it did in 2019. That works out to a 2019-sized gain about e...

This week, Real Vision used Refinitiv's best-in-class data to look back at the stranglehold that monetary policy has had over markets. Central banks played a pivotal role in the era of monetary madness in the last decade, and despite their best efforts, growth and inflation have remai...

The purpose of the Turning Points Newsletter is to look at the long-leading, leading, and coincidental economic indicators to determine if the economic trajectory has changed from expansion to contraction -- to determine if the economy has reached a "Turning Point." Recession probability i...

As we prepare to say goodbye to 2019, Real Vision took a look back to recap some of the most important themes that emerged during interviews with the world’s smartest financial minds this year. The first was the importance of process in investing. To be successful investing or ...

Jeff Sommer writes in the New York Times : “It is the time of year for predictions and I’ll make one: You will be better off ignoring the Wall Street stock-market predictions for 2020. Strategists, some of whom are very smart, are issuing precise predictions for where ...