Yardeni QuickTakes (Page 7)

MARKET CALL: Party Like It's 1999!?

Sep 20, 2025 3 min read

The DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Russell 2000 all rose to record highs this past week. All were boosted by the Fed's decision to cut the federal funds rate by 25bps on Wednesday. Is the stock market back on the road to the same irrational exuberance that inflated the Tech Bubble of 1999, which was followed by the Tech Wreck of the early 2000s? Will the

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Postpartum Impressions

Sep 18, 2025 3 min read

Please see Dr Ed's op-ed in today's Financial Times titled "Why it might be the time to repeal the Fed’s dual mandate: Should 3% be the US central bank's new inflation target?" As expected by everyone, the FOMC delivered a 25bps cut in the federal funds rate (FFR) yesterday. There was only one dissenter among the FOMC's voting members.

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Fed Cuts By 25 Basis Points, Ho-Hum

Sep 17, 2025 2 min read

Why didn't stock prices rise today? Why didn't the 10-year US Treasury bond yield fall below 4.00%? Why did the price of gold slip? The financial markets had clearly already fully discounted today's 25-basis-point cut in the federal funds rate. In addition, the FOMC's Dot Plot wasn't as dovish as some market participants might have expected. Seven of 19

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WEEKLY WEBCAST: An Open Letter to Scott Bessent

Sep 17, 2025 1 min read paid

A recent article by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent takes aim at the Fed for its use of unconventional monetary tools and its mission creep. Today, Dr Ed addresses the Treasury secretary in an open letter, detailing where they agree and diverge on the Fed’s role and what monetary and fiscal policies are needed to sustain the Roaring 2020s scenario that both support. While an original aim of the Fed

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Like Throwing Gasoline On A Fire

Sep 16, 2025 2 min read paid

The FOMC is likely to cut the federal funds rate (FFR) by 25bps tomorrow. Among the meeting participants, there might be one or more dissenters to the decision who favor a 50bps cut and one or more dissenters opposed to any cut. The Summary of Economic Projections may also indicate that FOMC participants are divided on whether and when further cuts might be necessary. Tomorrow's rate cut isn&

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DEEP DIVE: An Open Letter to Scott Bessent

Sep 15, 2025 7 min read paid

Dear Scott, I Wholeheartedly Agree Thank you for your public service as Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. I read your recent excellent article in The International Economy titled “The Fed’s New ‘Gain-of-Function’ Monetary Policy.” I agree with much of your criticism of the Fed. In addition, I believe that we share the same optimistic “Roaring 2020s” outlook for the US economy, and we both hope that

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ECONOMIC WEEK AHEAD: September 15 - 19

Sep 14, 2025 3 min read

Central banks take the spotlight this week as monetary policymakers from Washington to Tokyo cut to the chase on the balance of economic risks. Though the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting (Tue-Wed) is the main event, rate decisions by the Bank of Canada (Wed), the Bank of England (Thu), and the Bank of Japan (Fri) may reveal much about the degree to which US tariffs are disrupting economies around

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MARKET CALL: The Oracle Of Austin

Sep 14, 2025 3 min read paid

Last Wednesday, Larry Ellison, the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle, saw his net worth jump by $101 billion—the biggest one-day increase ever recorded on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index—to $382 billion. That happened after the company announced at its quarterly earnings conference that Google's Gemini AI models would become available on Oracle's cloud infrastructure. That sent the company's stock soaring

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25 Or 50, To Be Or Not To Be?

Sep 11, 2025 3 min read members

Following yesterday's cooler-than-expected PPI and today's as-expected CPI, expectations are that the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on September 17, with no dissenting votes among voting members. Following today's jump in last week's initial unemployment claims, meeting participants might consider a 50-basis-point cut, but we doubt that they will opt for that, as the majority would

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WEEKLY WEBCAST: The Good, The (Not So) Bad & The (Relatively) Ugly

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read paid

Our Roaring 2020s economic scenario and expectations for inflation and the labor market suggest that the Fed probably shouldn’t cut interest rates this year, although one cut might be warranted if upcoming inflation reports are more subdued than we expect. Yet a rate cut next week, after the FOMC meets Wednesday, is practically a foregone conclusion. Stimulating an economy that doesn’t need stimulation won’t create more workers

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Lots Of News

Sep 9, 2025 4 min read paid

There was a lot of news today that, on balance, didn't move the needle much in the financial markets, which are marking time until August's PPI and CPI reports are released on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Let's review all the non-events today: (1) Gold & geopolitics. The nearby futures price of gold jumped to yet another record high of $3,707 per ounce this

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Earnings-Led Meltup?

Sep 8, 2025 3 min read paid

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