Weekly Market Pulse: Wanna Bet?
The arrest last week of several ex-NBA players - and one current head coach - on gambling charges, seems to have no connection to markets or investing or the economy. Miami Heat player Terry Rozier is accused of providing insider information about NBA games and his own performance to gamblers who placed bets and laundered their winnings. Chauncey Billups, an [...]
Weekly Market Pulse: Free Will
Was that it? Was that the top? A week ago, the market fell 2.7% as President Trump announced an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting November 1st. Since that Friday selloff, the market has stabilized and recovered a little over half that one day loss. The S&P 500 is now down just about 1.5% from its all-time high. Is [...]
Weekly Market Pulse: The Return of Tariff Man
You knew something had to shatter the calm. The market had become too complacent, making money was too easy lately. It has been 27 trading weeks since the last big tariff announcement - Trump's "liberation day" when he announced reciprocal tariffs on the entire world last April - and in 17 of those weeks, the S&P 500 traded higher, a [...]
Monthly Macro Monitor: Status Quo
There has been a lot of change in economic - and other - policies this year but not much change in the economic outlook. We've had a large tax hike in the form of import taxes (tariffs), a comprehensive tax and spending bill, a DOGE attack on various government departments, more government employee layoffs than has ever happened in one [...]
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