Tag: gdp growth
2022 Financial Markets Outlook Faces Several Headwinds
The first part of our 2022 outlook looks through the front windshield and contrasts 2021s tailwinds with 2022s growing headwinds. While no one knows...
Investors: Beware of Half Truths In Data Research
“When one side of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly” – George Washington
Daughter- Can I...
Economic Rumblings… “Two Percent for the One Percent”
“Gradual inflation has a numbing effect. It impoverishes the lower and middle class, but they don’t notice.”—Andrew Bosomworth, PIMCO Germany, as quoted in Der...
United States PMI Data Points To Strong Economic Growth
Recently released PMI data for June was okay vs month ago, but strong on a broader level as it confirmed what we have been...
Ever-Accumulating Debt & Trade Deficits: Triffin Warned Us
Trade negotiations and threatening global tariff volleys are contributing to significant volatility in the financial markets. Although applicable in many ways, the Smoot-Hawley protectionist...
U.S. GDP Growth Is Not As Rosy As It Seems
Last Friday, Gross Domestic Product (GDP or the domestic economic growth rate) for the fourth quarter of 2017 was released. Despite being 0.3% short...
2018 Tax Reform Offers Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain
The new tax plan, in my opinion, is not overly significant.
From an economic standpoint, since other nations have lower corporate tax rates, there is...
Corporate Tax Cuts: The Seen… and the Unseen
Since Donald Trump was elected President, the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX,) has rallied over 21% or nearly 500 points.
In our opinion, a good portion of...
Global Equities Still Riding Coattails of Economic Expansion
The Global Expansion Continues
In this post, I will focus on the positive forces that are driving the global economy... and the benefit its offered...
The Difference Between Emerging Markets and Developed Markets
Anyone who has been paying attention to emerging markets will have noticed the very interesting price action going on there. But since it's getting...
