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What is the State of the Stock Market and Economy?
Executive Summary The Fed’s response to the 2008 Financial Crisis initiated programs which grew their balance sheet from $900 billion to $4.5 [...]
Which Indicator is Right?
Executive Summary This week’s newsletter will be abbreviated as is the Labor Day work week. The inverted yield curve, which has preceded [...]
Has Residential Real Estate Joined the Anomalies?
Executive Summary With mortgage interest rates soaring, many people expected a sudden drop in home prices. The data shows the quantity of [...]
Rising Interest Rates and a Resumption of Student Loan Payments, Are Households Prepared?
Executive Summary Prior to the pandemic, household savings were trending upward and then spiked with multiple rounds of government stimulus money (see [...]
How Much Higher Can Interest Rates Go?
Executive Summary Fitch, one of the three largest credit rating agencies, recently downgraded the U.S. debt rating from AAA to AA+ because [...]
Will High Mortgage Rates Impact Home Prices?
Executive Summary Since the Federal Reserve Bank raised the Federal Funds Rate to 5.25%, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate has jumped to [...]
How Are Rising Interest Rates Impacting Businesses?
Executive Summary Most U.S. businesses use debt to maintain operations. The first graph shows how banks are tightening lending standards compared to [...]
Dr. John Hussman’s Assessment of the Market
Executive Summary John Hussman, Ph.D., economist, market analyst and fund manager, provides some of the best market analyses in the industry. He [...]
How Will the Drain in Liquidity Impact the Stock Market?
Executive Summary The Fed is now implementing Quantitative Tightening (QT), thereby reducing the size of their balance sheet. They are also increasing [...]