Illustration by Risto Avramovski Text size About the Author: Pierre Cramer is Senior Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Insurance Asset Management at SLC management. This comment reflects his personal opinions. The trajectory of risky assets in 2023 depends on how far the Federal Reserve is willing to go with its interest rate hikes to …
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Text size The towers of the Linden gas-fired combined heat and power plant, also known as ‘Three Warm Brothers’, in Hannover, Germany. A European Union ban on Russian oil imports by sea went into effect on Monday. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg About the Author: Abishur Prakash is co-founder and geopolitical futurist of the Center for Innovating the …
Text size Police officers stand guard during a protest in Beijing, China, early Monday, November 28, 2022. Recent developments have not reduced the risks investors face from authoritarianism, writes Perth Tolle. Bloomberg About the Author: Perth Outcry is the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes and creator of the FRDM index. Last week we witnessed …
China’s protests are new. Investment risks are not. Read More »
Text size Police officers stand guard during a protest in Beijing, China, early Monday, November 28, 2022. Recent developments have not reduced the risks investors face from authoritarianism, writes Perth Tolle. Bloomberg About the Author: Perth Outcry is the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes and creator of the FRDM index. Last week we witnessed …
China’s protests are new. Investment risks are not. Read More »
Text size Consumer dissatisfaction is worse among households earning less than $50,000 a year, writes Dana M. Peterson. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images About the Author: Dana M. Peterson is chief economist at the Conference Board. Consumers sense that a recession is imminent and are beginning to behave accordingly. They become more and more unhappy by …
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About the Author: Joe Sullivan is a Senior Advisor to the Lindsey Group. He served from 2017 to 2019 as Special Advisor to the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. His opinions do not necessarily represent those of his employer. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Lael Brainard spotted something “very unusual” in the …
The US labor market is leaning toward scarcity. The Fed cannot change that. Read More »
“Previously the provenance of craft bartenders and spirits connoisseurs, mezcal has decidedly entered the mainstream.” blue class Text size Mezcal, the smokier and bolder tasting agave-based alcohol than tequila, has never been more popular. According to research firm ReportLinker, the North American mezcal market recorded sales of US$326.29 million in 2019 and is expected to …
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Amid equity and bond market volatility this year, hedge funds have largely served as a buffer for investors, and some private wealth managers expect these alternative investment vehicles to continue to deliver results over the the year to come. Although aggregate hedge fund returns fell 9.3% this year in the third quarter, large-cap US stocks …
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Text size Prices rise until the real value of wealth held in the form of money is rebalanced with demand, writes David Ranson. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images About the Author: David Ranson is Head of Research at HCWE & Co. in Portland, OR. Contrary to popular belief, inflation is not caused by an excess of “demand” …
Inflation is about the quality of money, not the quantity Read More »
Retirees and investors approaching retirement are under pressure this year. Inflation soared to multi-decade highs, stocks fell and bonds – a safe haven in normal times – crashed. The traditional portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds had one of its worst years in a century. No wonder retirement investors are so gloomy. Americans say …
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