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By Robert P. Murphy Editor's Note: We keep hearing from the Fed's defenders that the current spate of new stimulus and bailouts from the central bank are really not a big deal and are all very prudent and moderate. I asked Senior Fellow Bob Murphy to provide some much-needed perspective. ...

All central banks face the same situation: domestic economies, which were shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus, are now in a deep recession. Central banks are steadying credit markets, lowering rates, and taking extraordinary action to support economic growth. The possibility of sho...

By Brian L. Giuliano, CFA The global economy has been brought to its knees by COVID-19, with a collapse in demand unlike anything seen since the Great Depression. Economic shutdowns and social distancing policies have led to mass unemployment and the near-term impairment of entire industri...

There’s a lot going on in markets to keep our eyes on and today we started to see the markets pricing in growth, Roger Hirst said during the Real Vision Daily Briefing. Hirst said we’re shifting from the old narrative of the NASDAQ outperforming everything else; weȁ...

The CBO has a new report where they update their forecasts for real and nominal GDP growth during the 2020s: Of course this is just one projection, but it's in line with what I see elsewhere, both among forecasters and in the financial markets. The Fed should not allow this to happen. Yo...

By Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz recently tweeted , "When you measure the prices of things Americans are spending money on right now, 'it turns out that the actual inflation rate is not as low' as the data suggest". Her evidence was a chart showing how spending for f...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy Last week, I discussed the debate regarding Federal Reserve (Fed) policy and negative rates . In this week's blog, I wanted to follow up on the "negative rate" theme, specifically as it relates to U.S. Treasury ((UST)) T-bill rates. I hav...

In 2020, many investors have shifted the focus of their fixed-income portfolios from the return ON principal to the return OF principal. Karen highlights how the desire for stability is driving investors to tap into U.S. Treasury markets with ETFs. The market volatility since the start of...

Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the stock market has outperformed gold and silver significantly. Here is a great chart (from longtermtrends.net) that proves this: The S&P 500 is in red, the Dow in blue and gold and silver in their native colours. The outperforman...

The past two months serve as a classic example of how compounding works. The stock market was down 30% in one month and then it went up 30% in the next month, but it is still 10% below where it started. As interesting as this may be, the real interest is in what lies ahead. In this article, we...