Hold the presses: Bond Bear Market has been averted! Today’s Non-Decision on the Federal Funds Rate was a surprise only to the intractable 12% of myopic analysts who want the Fed to get out of the business of printing dollars regardless of economic risk. The most interesting comment by Fed Chair Janet…
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave her much anticipated comments on the potential for coming Federal Funds rate hikes. As usual the speech was subject to intense forensic interpretation. At first the conclusion was Dovish – no chance for a September rate hike. Upon further review, Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer and…
Our recent reports have worried about “short term” stock market froth in August as indicated by option trader sentiment showing relatively heavy Call buying. The additional anxiety over the contrasting US presidential candidates may also send investors and business deals to the sidelines making the fear of lower stocks and…
Millennials are not lazy, but actually represent a very innovative and connected cloud oriented phase of our new world order. According to the data they are needed in our thinly skilled labor pool, but more and more they have chosen to swim elsewhere. Unemployment has fallen to just 4.7% and our Central Bankers perceive inflation inducing full employment is at…
Recession Watch? Sentiment has bottomed? With the Small Business job creating engine of America plunging right back into the abyss of a recession mentality, it’s a bold forecast to claim that economic sentiment for the US is about to turn higher. Let’s just say 2015 was the year the Energy…