The Wall Street Journal summed up the first six months of the year with a simple but telling headline: S&P…
Strong momentum that began in April carried through May, with major stock indexes continuing to climb to new highs. Despite…
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Since the end of the bear market related to the “Great Financial Crisis” (March 2009), the rise in the markets…
Since the beginning of the year, the markets have been rattled by persistently high inflation and the question of how…
On Wednesday, March 16, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates for the first time since December 2018 with a .25%…
Despite repeatedly denying he had any designs on his neighbor, Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine late last month.…
There are plenty of reasons why inflation is at a 40-year high: easy money and low interest rates, rising wages,…
The Federal Reserve is officially signaling a change in its stance on monetary policy and is planning to reduce its…
September has historically been the worst month for stocks, according to St. Louis Federal Reserve data measuring monthly S&P 500…
Inflation has not been a persistent and serious threat to the economy since the 1970s and early 1980s. The Fed…
One of the big discussions lately has been about how will higher taxes potentially impact the stock market. We’ve known…
This time last year stringent measures in the U.S. were being taken to slow the spread of Covid and “flatten…
Technically, the economy is still in a recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research-NBER), the arbiter of recessions and economic recoveries,…