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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 [...]
Are New Car Prices About to Fall?
Executive Summary When short-term interest rates are higher than long-term interest rates, the curve is considered inverted. Typically, this occurs just prior [...]
Is a Recession Underway?
Executive Summary When short-term interest rates are higher than long-term interest rates, the curve is considered inverted. Typically, this occurs just prior [...]
Is it Time to Step Back and Look Again?
Executive Summary Over the past decade, the Fed’s monetary policy was seen as the most important determinant for the direction of the [...]
Did May’s Job Gains Eliminate a Recession?
Executive Summary Last Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 339,000 new jobs were created in May, and the unemployment rate increased [...]