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Will April Economic Showers Bring a Summer Slump?

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. Click Here For More EVOLVE News Content Listen to […]Read More

Wall Street Bears Watching as World Trade Withers

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 Only Economic Certainty is Uncertainty

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

Welcome to the Bait and Switch Economy

As corporate America gears up for first-quarter earnings season the whispers of a coming recession are growing louder. In an effort to soften the blow, it seems some government officials are hoping to change the way economic growth is reported. Click Here For More EVOLVE News Content Listen to more of the Spare Change PodcastRead More

Return to Office Policies Are a 21st Century Cliché

Putting the genie back in the bottle, closing the barn door after the horse has bolted or that ship has sailed. These old clichés have never been more relevant than they are today in the ongoing saga of return-to-office directives. Click Here For More EVOLVE News Content Listen to more of the Spare Change PodcastRead More

Volatility, Uncertainty and Bears, Oh My!

It’s been a wild ride so far this year for the economy, and there are few signs that anything will change anytime soon. Looming trade wars, government shake-ups and a general air of unpredictability from Washington have made business owners and corporate boards more than a little nervous. And that could mean rough seas for […]Read More

Artificial Intelligence, the Paris Summit and FOMO

The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit held earlier this month in Paris revealed the truth about AI. It’s not the science fiction-based idea of artificially intelligent robots taking over the world or even the displacement of workers by machines. Click Here For More EVOLVE News Content Listen to more of the Spare Change PodcastRead More

Life in the Crypto Fast Lane

The regulatory lights are about to turn green for cryptocurrency fans and the federal government is hitting the gas. In the midst of the first-month flurry of activity coming out of Washington D.C., officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a sea change in the relationship between government and digital currencies. The SEC launched […]Read More

Science Fact Outpaces Science Fiction With AI

It’s been a hectic start to the new year for artificial intelligence. While the American government announced a massive AI infrastructure investment OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, a Chinese company, DeepSeek, released a lower-cost artificial intelligence system upending the stock market and forced a recalibration of the AI landscape. Click Here For More EVOLVE News Content […]Read More

The Federal Reserve Board and the 2% Solution

At his first press conference of the new year, Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell made it clear monetary policy is on cruise control for now, despite increasing pressure from the new administration to approve more interest rate cuts. “The public should be confident that we will continue to do our work as we always […]Read More