paid Employment • 3 min read Mixed Bag The 10-year US Treasury bond yield fell to 4.36% today on a batch of weaker-than-expected economic indicators. Bond investors…
paid Consumer Confidence • 3 min read Happy Day Today is a happy day for stock investors. They are pleased that President Donald Trump had a pleasant phone call…
paid Bond Market • 3 min read Is A US Government Debt Crisis Imminent? Stock investors have been less "tarrified" about President Donald Trump's tariffs since April 9, when he…
paid Bond Market • 3 min read Let Them Eat Tariffs! Walmart warned last week that it will have to raise prices because of President Donald Trump's tariffs. On…
paid Inflation • 3 min read Bonds Are Stirred, Not Shaken The S&P 500 is down roughly 10% from its record high on February 19. Considering Trump's…
paid Trump 2.0 • 3 min read Are Tariffs Inflationary Or Deflationary? Are They Really ‘A Beautiful Thing?’ Until recently, the message from the bond market has been that tariffs are deflationary because they depress global economic activity.…
paid Stock Market • 2 min read MARKET CALL: Bond Vigilantes Spooking Stock Jockeys Last year, during August, we anticipated that US bond yields would rebound. Indeed, they have. During December, we expected a…
public Fiscal Policy • 3 min read Modern Monetary Magic At Work Republican Everett Dirksen was the Senate Minority Leader during the 1960s. Cautioning that federal spending had a way of getting…
public Unemployment • 3 min read Powell & Co. Slams The Pedal To The Metal Wow, the Fed lowered the federal funds rate (FFR) by 50bps yesterday and the economy is already responding. Jobless claims…
paid Bond Market • 3 min read Treasuries Anticipating Trump 2.0? Long-term US government bond prices fell sharply since the presidential debate on Thursday evening. The 10-year Treasury yield rose from…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Anatomy Of The Bond Yield We expect that the 10-year US Treasury bond yield will remain rangebound between 4.00% and 5.00% for the…