Part two of a three-part series. Investors frequently are attracted to the stock of newly public companies. The big money, though, is often made by those who invest before and…
IPOs’ Record Rebound
Part one of three. Good things happen even in a bad year. In January, we wrote about many of the good things that happened in the abysmal year of…
The New Super Fed — The World’s Largest Bank
Part one of a two-part series. Amazon isn’t the only entity that will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger and more powerful than ever. The same can be said for…
Bernie Sanders: “The Stock Market’s Best Friend”
Part Two of a Three-Part Series. So, if experts believed a capitalist like Donald Trump would have a negative impact on the stock market, what are they saying about the…
Would Socialism Be Good for the Stock Market? Nyet!
Part One of a Three-Part Series. With Bernie Sanders now the frontrunner for Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, we wondered what the impact would be on the stock market and the…
2010s vs. 2000s
By most accounts, 2019 was a very good year. Stock indices set new records and the historically longest bull market continued. So did the historically longest recovery. In 2018, the…
The Fed’s Fundamental Failure
We can debate how much impact massive Fed intervention had on the economy as it recovered from the Great Recession, but one thing that’s undebatable is that the Federal Reserve…
The Great Recession Still Having An Impact
Perhaps the most lasting impression of the Great Recession is that it made $1 trillion seem small. It seemed like a financial apocalypse, as the U.S. stock market lost half…
There Is No Normal
The Federal Reserve Board routinely gets it wrong. Given the political nature of its work, the differing opinions of its seven governors and, especially, the subjective economic beliefs that influence…
Lessons from the Great Recession
Our past two posts addressed causes of the Great Recession and how it was addressed. Today, we look at lessons learned from the crisis. It’s easy to forget what happened…