by Andrew Moran | Jan 10, 2020 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News
The U.S. stock market is providing incredible returns to just about every type of investor, from the gold bug to the Texas tea drinker, from the tech geek to the bond king. If you put your hard-earned dollars into any kind of investment over the last couple of years,...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 2, 2020 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News
One of the lasting legacies of the economic collapse a decade ago is subprime. After lying dormant for several years in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the subprime market has returned with a vengeance. Everything is subprime nowadays as banks, finance...
by Andrew Moran | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics, Trade
1. The Trade Wars Saga Like the Paul Rudd meme, “Hey, look at us. Who would have thought it? Not me!” After an exhausting 18 months, the U.S.-China trade war finally seems to be winding down. But that does not mean investors have cured their whiplash or news headline...
by Andrew Moran | Dec 11, 2019 | Articles, Economic Affairs News
Did you miss the days of reckoning on Wall Street in mid-September? You may have heard in passing about a crash in the repo market when rates skyrocketed from 2% to as high as 10%, and the fed funds rate jumped five basis points above its target range. Why does it...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 18, 2019 | Articles, Business News, Economic Affairs News, International, Politics, Social Issues, Trade
As Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – which has turned out to be a handbook for central banks to devise monetary policy and the public to understand it – “If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with...