Crypto investors have a lot of reasons to be happy these days. With a new “crypto task force” created by the Trump Administration with the participation of some of the leading cryptocurrency advocates and a seeming recovery from the turbulence of the past few years, the future looks if not bright than at least more […]Read More
With U.S. trade policy in flux, the rest of the world is bracing for stormy economic weather ahead. And the uncertainty about where the economic ships of state are heading makes charting a course virtually impossible. As the International Monetary Fund members gather for the organization’s spring meeting, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva offered warnings about […]Read More
With U.S. trade policy in flux, the rest of the world is bracing for stormy economic weather ahead. And the uncertainty about where the economic ships of state are heading makes charting a course virtually impossible. As the International Monetary Fund members gather for the organization’s spring meeting, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva offered warnings about […]Read More
With U.S. trade policy in flux, the rest of the world is bracing for stormy economic weather ahead. And the uncertainty about where the economic ships of state are heading makes charting a course virtually impossible. As the International Monetary Fund members gather for the organization’s spring meeting, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva offered warnings about […]Read More
With the future of the global economy up in the air, many people are looking for down-to-Earth answers about their financial well-being. But perhaps they are looking in the wrong places. Some are scrutinizing quarterly earnings reports while others are going through economic reports with a fine-toothed comb. They might even be consulting psychics for […]Read More
The conventional wisdom in financial circles says the stock market isn’t the economy. But sometimes it is. And this is one of those times. Confusingly counterintuitive, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average, along with the other indices here and around the world are only some of several barometers economists rely on to measure the strength […]Read More
The conventional wisdom in financial circles says the stock market isn’t the economy. But sometimes it is. And this is one of those times. Confusingly counterintuitive, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average, along with the other indices here and around the world are only some of several barometers economists rely on to measure the strength […]Read More
The conventional wisdom in financial circles says the stock market isn’t the economy. But sometimes it is. And this is one of those times. Confusingly counterintuitive, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average, along with the other indices here and around the world are only some of several barometers economists rely on to measure the strength […]Read More
April is the cruelest month according to poet T.S. Eliot and this year it could bring the U.S. economy to a waste land of recession. The month will be filled with quarterly earnings reports likely to disappoint investors and send Wall Street running for the hills. Already several companies have issued lower earnings guidance and […]Read More
For anyone doubting economists make meteorologists look like the Oracle at Delphi, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference earlier this month offered definitive proof. Speaking after the central bank’s interest rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee meeting voted to keep rates steady, Powell said with the new administration’s policy initiatives “uncertainty around the changes […]Read More