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Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) What’s up with the stock market? There was widespread outrage that the stock market didn’t go all the way to zero in the last few weeks. This image from Mad Money seemed to symbolize the outrage well: The global stock m...

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By Stephen Brennan In February of 2020, the S&P 500 made a new all-time high of nearly 3,400 points. Then the selloff began that would see an intraday low below 2,200 points. That is a 35 percent loss. But the market has since rebounded recovering to 2,846 points as I write this. This ...

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Originally published April 14, 2020 Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you - The Police The markets are askew. Between bonds widening against Treasuries, and equities popping for no apparent reason, and an...

Finance students learn that small company investments that can provide excess returns versus less risky large cap, blue-chip stocks. The ‘size factor’ is one of the original components that Eugene Fama and Ken French used to develop their 3-factor model. It worked for quite s...

Dire forecasts for a repeat of the 1930s bear market for equities (in terms of its duration) have become increasingly common since last month. Yet a review of the recent technical evidence, plus a look at some historical connections, suggests that the recent market plunge was likely more of a ...

Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. - Henry Hazlitt Manufactured goods data came in flat at $497.4 billion month over month for February 2020 . We are all aware that the downturn wasn't priced into this data because th...

There has been a lot of talk - and even more confusion! - about the direction the alleged post-coronavirus recovery will take in the US, once businesses reopen and millions of Americans go back to work. As always, there are tendencies to oversimplify the world around us by invoking hypotheti...