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Who says there is no recession anywhere in sight? It depends on where you are looking. In short, manufacturing remains in recession; corporate profits remain in recession; freight remains deep in recession; Carmageddon remains in recession; and the Retail Apocalypse remains a recessi...

There's a renewed danger of recession this year, and to explain why it's worth revisiting the recent past. I have argued that we normally would have had a recession last year, but a nimble Fed was able to adjust policy in time to prevent the recession and create America's first expansion of mo...

Risk and Leverage Since I’ll be discussing leveraged applications, I’m going to begin with some sobering data regarding risk. The thrust of this article is how to mitigate that risk to manageable levels, while pursuing outsized returns. But first, let’s look at the risk....

The Fed January Minutes As always, the Fed’s when the Fed’s FOMC meeting minutes are released, there’s always a few items of interest besides the minute parsing of phrasing. For example, in the just-released January minutes, this nugget: Some market participants sugge...

The global economy has slowed down, the ability to offset the impact of negative political risk is lower, and that's the environment in which the risks we see for 2020 and 2021 are concerning, Maziar Minovi, CEO of Eurasia Group, told Real Vision’s The Interview. Minovi said th...

Our statistical task The reason we ramble through various economic statistics is that we're trying to work out when - if - the economy hits a turning point. We know, after all, that we've not abolished the business cycle. We also know we're still in the longest modern day expansion of the Am...

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"Inflation is taxation without legislation." – Milton Friedman On February 13, the most recent inflation numbers were released, and we started to see the effect of the coronavirus on prices. A sharp drop in demand for global oil consumption led to much lower energy prices, which led...

US economic activity is expected to ease in the first quarter, based on the median for a set of nowcasts compiled by The Capital Spectator . The current estimate reflects the softest quarterly gain in over a year, although the anticipated increase is still strong enough to keep the economic...

Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) Is there another stock market bubble? Over the course of the last 6 or 7 years, I have consistently shot down the idea that there is a stock market bubble (see here and here for example). My view of a bubble is pretty simple. It is...