Tag: economic growth

Key Takeaway: Federal Reserve studies suggest expansions are lasting longer and do not die just from old age. No one knows what the future...

Negative Interest Rates, Central Banks and Recessions It seems that there is not a single day without some comments or jawboning from a central bank...

“It’s self-defeating to use the wrong monetary policy.” -Ben Bernanke What is productivity? The Federal Reserve’s flawed growth benchmark Excessive monetary policy is crushing productivity The prescription for...

Volatility Rising as 2015 Headwinds Linger Into 2016 2016 Stock Market Outlook Summary Growth remains stable with a bias toward acceleration as recovery participation broadens Inflation moving...

The Federal Reserve announced in late October that there is a live possibility that they will raise rates in December. The very announcement of...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ends its two-day Federal Reserve meeting today, the significance of which cannot be stressed enough. A lot is...

This week I am going to do something a bit different for the weekly commentary. The main issue this week is whether or not...

There has been a great deal of discussion regarding whether the Fed is going to continue down the path of ZIRP or if...

This has been a crazy week that included the Greek debt crisis, the Chinese Stock Market meltdown and the New York Stock Exchange ‘HALT’....

In recent years, “efficiency innovations” have been actively pursued by corporations, thus creating a productivity imbalance due to a lack of investment in “market-creating...