Economy and Investing

Stock markets around the world continue to be roiled by investor anxiety over the state of the U.S. and world economy, corporate earnings, the price of oil, and the intentions of the Federal Reserve and other central banks. This is not new stuff, of course,…

Topics: Economy and Investing

We’re not quite three weeks into the new year and it’s feeling to many people like the world is coming to an end.  So, before I say anything more, let me cut to the chase: It isn’t. There, I said it.  We can all breathe…

Topics: Economy and Investing

As we enter the fourth trading day of 2016, world stock markets seem to have a bad case of nerves.  As you know, we don’t believe that what happens in the markets on a day-to-day or month-to-month basis carries any real information, dominated as it…

Topics: Economy and Investing

Stock markets around the world have gotten choppy again after a period of extended calm and some are asking what’s up and what’s next.  The answer, as always, is that we don’t know what’s next in the short run but we do have a high degree of…

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We wrote about the renewal of the Greek debt crisis a month ago, noting that it was “like deja vu all over again,” mirroring the Greek debt crisis we were writing about back in October of 2011 (Beware of Greeks Bearing Gilts), when the markets…

Topics: Economy and Investing

With Greece back in the headlines, bringing with it a fresh bout of market volatility, we thought it might be time to touch base and offer a little history and a quick forecast.  We first wrote about the sad state of Greek finances back in…

Topics: Economy and Investing