As 2017 draws to a close, we’re facing at least three key economic certainties going into 2018. The first is that the market is clearly in a boom cycle. The S&P 500 is on a 12-month winning streak. Year to date it’s up over 18%. The Dow is up over 4,500 points since...
Are You a Perma Bull or a Perma Bear? A Tale of Two Markets When we think about the current stock market, here is the tale of the tape. The Dow has hit some 74 record highs since the 2016 presidential election. Its highest close to date was 23,557.23—hit just a week...
At an international banking seminar this past weekend, prominent figures from the banks of Japan, China, the European Union, and the United States met to discuss their respective monetary systems. For her part, Janet Yellen went on record stating that inflation has...
DATELINE: March 23, 2013. The New York Times headline blared: “Cyprus Makes Plan to Seize Portion of High-Level Deposits.” The story details how the island nation devised a raid on civilian checking and savings accounts in an attempt to avoid a national banking...
For the first time in history our federal government has more than $20 trillion in outstanding debt. If you think, “It’s the government’s debt, not mine,” think again. The U.S. national debt is, in part, the money that each of us owe a portion of as a taxpayer whether...