Making Sense of First and Second Quarter 2025 GDP
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the first two quarters of 2025 were highly confusing for economists. Taken at face value, the first quarter’s [...]
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the first two quarters of 2025 were highly confusing for economists. Taken at face value, the first quarter’s [...]
MARKET SUMMARY: Stocks began the second quarter with continued declines, culminating in a sharp selloff following the April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement of broad-based [...]
MARKET SUMMARY: A Cato Institute poll revealed that 83% of economists believe tariffs are harmful to the economy and should be eliminated. Similarly, a [...]
MARKET SUMMARY: The 2024 U.S. election had conflicting effects on the stock and bond markets in the fourth quarter. Stock investors responded positively to [...]
In their October 19, 2024 edition The Economist published a particularly interesting special report on the state of the American economy. As a follow-up [...]