June 1st Weekly Economic Update This week’s Weekly Economic Commentary is the third in a series looking back at the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) quantitative easing (QE) programs and evaluating how well they achieved their goals. Why grade the Fed now? We have just passed...
June 1st Weekly Market Update There is no question that Greece is tangled economically and politically in Europe. This was by design — the adoption of the euro was intended to be permanent, as was membership in the European Union (EU).* These entanglements are being...
May 25th Weekly Economic Update We gave the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) quantitative easing (QE) a passing grade for lowering financial market and banking stress levels in last week’s Weekly Economic Commentary, “Grading the Fed’s QE Program: A Multi-Week Group Project,”...
May 25th Weekly Market Update Last week in a tribute to David Letterman’s last Late Show, we highlighted our top 10 keys for stocks. But there was one notable omission: earnings. With the U.S. earnings season effectively over, we did not list earnings as a key driver...
May 18th Weekly Market Update This week we pay tribute to David Letterman’s last Late Show on May 20, 2015, with our own top 10 list: the top 10 keys for stocks. Mr. Letterman has had quite a long and successful run as a late night TV host on two networks. Late Night...