VTI News and Press, Vanguard Total Stock Market From 05/19/23

2023-05-19 01:13:50 ET Summary Robert Lucas, Nobel-winning economist, has written about how macroeconomic policies can end up having results not necessarily desired by the initiators of the policies. The massive growth in income/wealth inequality is closely connected with the "cre...

2023-05-18 16:16:01 ET Summary Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, decreased 6.5 percentage points to 22.9%. Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially unchanged over the next six months, increased 8.0 ...

2023-05-18 10:15:08 ET Summary Stocks dropped almost 20% in the 2011 debt ceiling window. Treasury market performance highlights a significant difference between 2011 and 2023. 2023 credit markets are telling us to monitor the S&P 500's still constructive trend with a more...

2023-05-17 15:10:39 ET Summary The latest data on manufacturing and wholesale sales, and industrial production, indicate a substantial likelihood that these have peaked. But real personal income and employment have continued to grow. Fed rate hikes have finally caused total ho...

2023-05-17 14:33:14 ET Summary The financial world is becoming more and more digital, and this trend will dominate the future of money. Central bank digital currencies are being developed all over the world, and it is important for us to learn as much as we can about them and how ...

2023-05-15 18:48:56 ET Summary Over the past 40 years, wealth has grown faster than ever before, and the concentration of wealth into the top 10 percent or the top 1 percent has accelerated. The government's program to support credit inflation, emphasizing rising asset prices in r...

2023-05-15 12:00:00 ET Summary Losses took a toll on markets around the world, with US stocks and bonds posting the smallest setbacks last week. The Global Market Index (GMI.F) fell again last week, slipping 0.6%. Most of the major asset classes are still nursing relatively de...

2023-05-13 08:00:00 ET Summary High frequency indicators can give us a nearly up-to-the-moment view of the economy. The metrics are divided into long leading, short leading, and coincident indicators. The short leading indicators continue to gesture toward a recovery after a d...

2023-05-13 07:00:00 ET Summary Inflation remains stuck around 5%. The Fed has paused unless inflation remains stuck, then the Fed might keep hiking. The banking crisis is contained to relatively small banks that don't threaten another Great Financial Crisis. The economic d...

2023-05-12 11:02:41 ET Summary Very little happened on the Fed's watch this past banking week. The M2 money stock continues to decline and is down 5.3 percent from a year ago: quantitative tightening is now in its 13th month. Bank profits for the first quarter were at historic...