What is a Debt Cycle?

2025-10-21T20:07:47+00:00October 21st, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary Economist John Mauldin wrote several articles reviewing hedge fund manager Ray Dalio’s book “How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle.” From Mauldin’s Part 1 article he said: “I described the five stages of Dalio’s Big Debt Cycle. I dubbed them the ‘Stages of Grief.’ Briefly, [...]

Are the Markets Reflective of Reality?

2025-10-14T18:02:54+00:00October 14th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary From the bottom of the Financial Crisis in March of 2009, the S&P 500 climbed to a recent high of around 6700. Along the way from 2009 to current, the Federal Government over tripled the money supply and created numerous programs to give away money. [...]

Is the Road Getting Shorter?

2025-10-07T18:28:04+00:00October 7th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary While the stock market is rising, so also is the U.S. Federal Debt. Currently the balance is rapidly approaching $38 trillion. In the first graph, one can see the Federal deficit spending. With the employment picture weakening, the suspected response from the Government to a [...]

Are There Issues with the GDP Numbers?

2025-09-30T19:16:18+00:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary Recently the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released their final number for second quarter 2025, real annualized GDP growth at 3.8%. Many were stunned at the number, especially when compared to 4th quarter 2024 and first quarter 2025 (see first graph). Recently, a large gap [...]

What Will the Fed Do From Here?

2025-09-23T15:57:13+00:00September 23rd, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary The one piece of the economic puzzle which had appeared to defy gravity was employment; however, the picture changed with last week’s revision. Between last week’s revision for the period April 2024-March 2025 and the prior revision for same period 2023-2024, 1.5 million previously reported [...]

Was the Payroll Revision the Last Straw?

2025-09-16T18:51:21+00:00September 16th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary The one piece of the economic puzzle which had appeared to defy gravity was employment; however, the picture changed with last week’s revision. Between last week’s revision for the period April 2024-March 2025 and the prior revision for same period 2023-2024, 1.5 million previously reported [...]

Should the BLS Release Distorted Data?

2025-09-10T16:52:44+00:00September 10th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary There have been discussions lately about the reliability of the monthly “new jobs” report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The magnitude of subsequent monthly revisions is the source of the discussions. Each month the BLS uses the Establishment Survey combined with “seasonal [...]

What is Weighing on Economic Growth?

2025-09-04T15:46:15+00:00September 4th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary The U.S. Federal debt is now over $37 trillion. In the first graph below, one can see Real (inflation adjusted) GDP growth is now 12.9% below the long-term trend. Economist Lacy Hunt has stated studies indicate when Federal debt-to-GDP exceeds 90% for five consecutive years, [...]

What Will the Fed Do?

2025-08-26T18:30:21+00:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: INVESTMENT|

Executive Summary Last Friday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell spoke at the now infamous Jackson Hole meeting. In The Details below are excerpts from his talk. However, the markets only appeared to care about the following quote: “…the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may warrant [...]

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