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AIER's Leading Indicators Index posted another gain in March, hitting the highest level since June 2018. Overall consumer sentiment increased to 84.9 in March, up from 76.8 in February, a 10.5 percent rise and the highest since a reading of 89.1 in March 2020. Sales of light vehic...

Recently, the March jobs report showed a whopping 916,000 new jobs. Interestingly, there were some anomalies in the data and millions missing from the official count. There is currently a 130,000 person unemployment gap between the smoothed non-seasonally adjusted data and the officia...

Jamie Dimon attracted a lot of attention last week with his annual shareholder letter. The JPM CEO said the economy will likely "boom". And that we are looking at a "Goldilocks moment". For further details see: A Goldilocks Moment?

There's significant evidence to support that an S&P 500 pullback is likely. Options data do not support prices rising from here. Additionally, inflation expectations are not flatlining, suggesting the S&P is now ahead of itself. For further details see: The Stock...

The Biden administration is proposing various corporate tax changes that, according to the U.S. Treasury, could generate an estimated $2 trillion over the next decade. Although the Democrats have a small majority in the House of Representatives, their 51 - 50 advantage in the Senate (...

We are recovering from a sharp if brief recession, and with the dual fire hoses of fiscal and monetary stimulus, entering a boom such as we have probably not seen in over 50 years. Unsurprisingly, supplies of commodities and goods that had been cut back during the recession are going ...

On an unadjusted basis, new jobless claims rose by 18,172 to 740,787. Seasonally adjusted claims rose by 16,000 to 744,000. Continuing claims, which historically lag initial claims by a few weeks to several months, continued to make new pandemic lows yet again this week. For...

The PPI report last week didn't make a ripple in the markets, but the commentariat was all aTwitter about inflation and economic overheating and whether Powell might raise in rates in 2 years or 3. The market was not impressed. The 10-year Treasury yield moved all of about 1 basis poi...

With the weekly "buy signals" intact, the markets should hold above key support levels during the next consolidation phase. However, risks are building that have preceded more significant market declines in the past (5-10%). Currently, with investors chasing momentum in a highly i...

The spectacular collapse of Archegos marks a significant inflection point, ushering in a tightening of lending conditions at the "margin" for increasingly vulnerable bubbles. In contrast to the previous bubble period, government "money" has been a principal bubble fuel. Policymakers h...