The Weekly Flyer: Monday, May 16th, 2022The Markets Living with a bear. On the survival series “Alone,” the tension ratchets higher whenever participants encounter bears. Some...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, May 9th, 2022The Markets There is a lot of uncertainty in financial markets – and markets hate uncertainty. In recent weeks, economic and financial...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, May 2nd, 2022The Markets Correction and contraction.... Investing during 2022 has been like running a forest trail and having unexpected obstacles...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, April 25th, 2022The Markets The Federal Reserve’s Ice Bucket Challenge… Remember a few years ago when people raised money for charity by challenging...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, April 18th, 2022The Markets Here’s a riddle: How can inflation be 8.5 percent and 6.5 percent at the same time? The answer is that it depends on how you...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, April 11th, 2022The Markets The first quarter of 2022 was jam-packed with volatility-inducing events: rising inflation, war in Ukraine, rising interest...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, April 4th, 2022The Markets Checking in on the Federal Reserve. Among other things, Congress asks the Federal Reserve to use its tools to promote price...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, March 28th, 2022The Markets Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. In early March, almost two-thirds of Americans who participated in a...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, March 21st, 2022The Markets Markets were reassured by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s actions last week. The FOMC met on March 16 and did...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, March 14th, 2022The Markets Investor optimism is quite low. In just two weeks, the war in Ukraine has changed the status of 1.3 million people –...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, March 7th, 2022The Markets The world is adapting to a changing reality. As the war in Ukraine intensified last week, financial markets grappled with...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, February 28th, 2022The Markets Last week, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision ignited the biggest military conflict in...
The Weekly Flyer: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022The Markets Investors’ appetite for risk diminished as the Russian threat to Ukraine intensified. Volatility was high last week as...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, February 14th, 2022The Markets Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower? If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, February 7th, 2022The Markets A rosy view through the rearview mirror. To say that economists did not have great expectations for the January employment...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, January 31st, 2022The Markets Last week, the January stock market decline was interrupted by a Friday afternoon rally. “The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, January 24th, 2022The Markets When is a barometer not a barometer? It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact,...
The Weekly Flyer: Tuesday, January 18th, 2022The Markets Is the economy doing well, or not? If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, January 10th, 2022The Markets Here’s a little story about a group called the Fed… In the 1950’s, then Fed Chair William McChesney Martin described the...
The Weekly Flyer: Monday, January 3rd, 2022The Markets 2021 was a fizzing mints-in-soda kind of year. Everything seemed to shoot higher – from COVID-19 cases and vaccinations to...