There are two very important meetings about monetary policy this week but, so far, most of the public only knows about one of them.
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In the ten years prior to the onset of COVID, the consumer prices index rose at an average annual rate of 1.7%. Since the onset of COVID the overall CPI has
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Many of you may have recently seen a chart circulating on the internet suggesting a nationwide collapse in home prices is on the way, that we are in the
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Back in 1980, a central feature of President Reagan’s campaign was a thirty percent across-the-board cut in income tax rates. Once elected, he followed through
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In a better world, politics would not be important to investors. The government would have little influence over the economy, public policies would be
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History is absolutely clear – Capitalism is the best system ever developed (actually evolved by human experiment) to boost living standards. At the same time
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A small part of the federal government took a short break from being shut to make sure the Labor Department could deliver the September Consumer Price Index.
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As we recently argued, investors don’t need to worry about the federal government shutdown showdown causing a recession. Before the current shutdown, the
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Over the past two and one-half decades the federal government has buried taxpayers under a mountain of debt, now approaching $38 trillion.
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No one, that we know of, is saying Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t an amazing new technology that will have an important impact on life, investing, and the
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Economic data are all over the place. GDP keeps growing in spite of signs of weakness in the labor market. Tariff policy is volatile, immigration has slowed
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The stock market surged to new highs after the Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate last week and the futures market has priced in more cuts to come.
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