Trump really, really wants to tank the economy
President Donald Trump is reportedly going to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a likely illegal move to end the bank's independence and install a new chair who would carry out ...
Inflation
Mortgage Rates Are Headed up Again On June CPI Inflation Report
Inflation moved away from Fed’s 2 percent target for the second month in a row, with the cost of goods and services rising 2.7 percent from a year ...
Trump unleashes new hell on the economy—even if he pulls a TACO
President Donald Trump issued more insane tariff threats over the weekend, announcing that he will put a whopping 30% tariff on goods from the European Union and Mexico that, if ...
Mind the Inflation Gap: Hedging with Real Assets
Inflation expectations are skyrocketing. The University of Michigan Survey of Consumers shows that median forecasts jumped to 6.5% in April from 3.3% in January, and professional ...
Homebuyers Rushed to Lenders Last Week as Mortgage Rates Dipped
Real estate is changing fast, and so must you. Inman Connect San Diego is where you turn ...
Guess which countries Trump is threatening with more tariffs now
On Monday, in a pair of poorly written letters, President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25% tariff on South Korea and Japan beginning on Aug. 1 if the companies within those ...
Job Loss Fears, Mortgage Rates Weigh On Housing Sentiment
Fannie Mae survey echoes polls by the University of Michigan and the Conference Board that found uncertainty over tariffs is weighing on consumer ...
Democrats have a Hispanic voter problem
The “demographics is destiny” theory pushed by Obama-era Democrats is being rapidly exposed for the racist sham it always was. The idea that increasing the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity ...
An economy to celebrate this holiday weekend
As recently as two months ago, the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Robinson (2024) warned that Donald Trump’s policies put the country at risk of a full-scale economic collapse. Fellow ...
Turkey: The Trouble with Debt-Driven Growth
Turkey has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, much of this expansion has been driven by debt-fueled infrastructure spending. This excessive debt ...
Geopolitical Shock: Regime Change in Inflation and Monetary Policy
Globalization is besieged on multiple fronts. Two years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and amid growing geopolitical unrest, the decades-long disinflationary headwind ...
Why Invest in Stocks? | CFA Institute Enterprising Investor
Aren’t They Risky? Many financial pundits assume so, and in terms of volatility and the risk of permanent principal impairment, they’re right. But contrary to popular perception, ...
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