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The Markets Living with a bear. On the survival series “Alone,” the tension ratchets higher whenever participants encounter bears. Some...

The Markets There is a lot of uncertainty in financial markets – and markets hate uncertainty. In recent weeks, economic and financial...

The Markets Correction and contraction.... Investing during 2022 has been like running a forest trail and having unexpected obstacles...

The Markets The Federal Reserve’s Ice Bucket Challenge… Remember a few years ago when people raised money for charity by challenging...

The 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 Markets The first quarter of 2022 was jam-packed with volatility-inducing events: rising inflation, war in Ukraine, rising interest...

The Markets Checking in on the Federal Reserve. Among other things, Congress asks the Federal Reserve to use its tools to promote price...

The 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 Markets Markets were reassured by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s actions last week. The FOMC met on March 16 and did...

The Markets Investor optimism is quite low. In just two weeks, the war in Ukraine has changed the status of 1.3 million people –...

The Markets The world is adapting to a changing reality. As the war in Ukraine intensified last week, financial markets grappled with...

The Markets Last week, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision ignited the biggest military conflict in...

The Markets Investors’ appetite for risk diminished as the Russian threat to Ukraine intensified. Volatility was high last week as...

The Markets Why did stock markets in the United States finish the week lower? If this were Jeopardy, acceptable answers to that question...

The Markets A rosy view through the rearview mirror. To say that economists did not have great expectations for the January employment...

The 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 Markets When is a barometer not a barometer? It’s widely recognized that people do not make perfect financial decisions. In fact,...

The Markets Is the economy doing well, or not? If you skimmed the headlines last week, you may have seen that retail sales – the...

The 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 Markets 2021 was a fizzing mints-in-soda kind of year. Everything seemed to shoot higher – from COVID-19 cases and vaccinations to...