by Andrew Moran | Mar 11, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
Is the nation on the brink of a significant economic downturn? A US recession has been made the base case for Wall Street. In theory, it makes sense. The Federal Reserve is removing the spiked punch bowl by raising interest rates and offloading its trillions in...
by Sarah Cowgill | Mar 2, 2023 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden crowned himself homecoming king on behalf of the Democratic House leadership during the party’s annual legislative retreat in Baltimore. Clearly, the man was feeling his oats as he touted the victories achieved alongside the 117th Congress and...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 25, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
The Federal Reserve has struggled to get inflation under control. While the consumer price index (CPI) has declined for the last several months, the monetary phenomenon – as Milton Friedman called it – is still pronounced in multiple sectors of the economy, from food...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 23, 2023 | Business News, Opinion, Swamponomics
For months, the business news networks have been shouting to the heavens that the US consumer is strong. All they need to do is look at US retail sales to confirm this notion! But the latest reports on consumer debt show any sane person it is anything but normal,...
by Andrew Moran | Feb 18, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Opinion
Is this the “nothing is what it seems” economy? The latest US retail sales numbers might support the bears’ notion that everything about the current economic landscape is artificial, requiring a deeper dive beneath the surface to determine that many...