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October 14, 2024
By Ben Carlson – A Wealth of Common Sense Through the end of September, […]
October 12, 2024
By Jamie Chisholm – Market Watch Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of the current […]
October 11, 2024
By Ben Carlson – A Wealth of Common Sense Did the bull market from […]
October 11, 2024
By Joel Johnson – Forbes The Fed’s September 18th interest rate cut was […]
October 9, 2024
By Pallavi Rao – Visual Capitalist Africa’s GDP stands at $2.8 trillion in […]
October 9, 2024
October 8, 2024
2024.10.05 The copper price rallied to $10,000 per tonne ($4.53/lb) on Sept. 30 […]
October 8, 2024
2024.10.02 US stocks ripped higher on Monday, with all three indexes closing at […]
October 1, 2024
2024.09.28 The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates by 50 basis points […]
September 30, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The US dollar, still the #1 reserve currency held by […]
September 29, 2024
From The Economic Times The economy of US is going strong, but has […]
September 28, 2024
By Yvonne Yue Li – Bloomberg Money managers’ bullish wagers on gold jumped […]
September 27, 2024
By Daron Acemoglu – Project Syndicate In an America where wealth has increasingly […]
September 27, 2024
By Chunzi Xu – Bloomberg News The often-overlooked Canadian high-yield debt market is having […]
September 24, 2024
2024.09.21 Donald Trump has once again waded into an issue he doesn’t understand […]
September 24, 2024
By Karishma Vanjani – Barrons Money-market funds, which invest in short-term, high-quality securities, such […]
September 22, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET Trying to explain why something is happening in the financial markets is […]
September 21, 2024
2024.09.20 The United States Federal Reserve surprised markets Wednesday by cutting the benchmark […]
September 21, 2024
The Economist Between early 2022 and mid-2023 the Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy at […]
September 19, 2024
2024.09.14 Developed-world governments continue to spend beyond their means, borrowing and printing money […]
September 18, 2024
By Jordan Finneseth – Kitco News During periods of easy money, risk assets like […]
September 18, 2024
By Anna Peverieri and Alessandro Parodi – Reuters Battery-electric cars (BEVs) sold in the European Union […]
September 17, 2024
By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist Markets We show the average performance of […]
September 17, 2024
From Desjardins At its June 5 meeting, the Bank of Canada kicked off its […]
September 12, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET Second month-to-month acceleration in a row. Year-over-year, Core CPI and […]
September 10, 2024
By Piero Cingari – Benzinga The U.S. Treasury yield curve officially exited its […]
September 10, 2024
By Kayla Zhu – Visual Capitalist Global debt remains a topic of concern […]
September 9, 2024
2024.09.05 In a typical healthy market, the yield curve (typically the spread between the US […]
September 9, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET Following the jobs report on Friday that showed job creation had […]
September 9, 2024
By Sunil Dhawan – Financial Express For the global equity market, September 18 is […]
September 7, 2024
By Katharina Buchholz – Statista After global food prices had climbed to unprecedented […]
September 6, 2024
From Goehring & Rozencwajg We first unveiled this chart (shown below) in our 1Q2019 letter […]
September 5, 2024
2024.08.31 A “commodity supercycle” is a period of consistent price increases lasting more […]
September 4, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The eyepopping boom of 230% since early 2021 was driven […]
September 3, 2024
By Matthew Fox – Business Insider Commodities are the place to be for investors […]
September 2, 2024
By Alun John and Karin Strohecker – Reuters The dollar fell more than 2% against other […]
August 30, 2024
By Jeff Cox – CNBC While traders were focusing on Nvidia’s results Thursday, something […]
August 29, 2024
From The Economist High interest rates, not the passage of time, have restored […]
August 25, 2024
By Avi Salzman – Barron’s Jeff Currie has been charting the path of commodities […]
August 12, 2024
2024.08.11 When Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, he appointed John Shad to […]
August 10, 2024
2024.08.10 A “Minsky Moment” refers to a point in time when a period […]
August 10, 2024
2024.08.10 It’s been a volatile week in the markets. On Monday, Aug. 5, […]
August 9, 2024
From The Economist The Big Mac is much the same everywhere. But its price, interestingly, […]
August 8, 2024
By Lance Roberts – Ria Advice Economist Claudia Sahm developed the “Sahm Rule,” which states that the […]
August 8, 2024
By Ian Salisbury – Barron’s The Japanese yen. Earnings. Recession worries. All played a […]
August 7, 2024
2024.08.03 The Bretton Woods financial system collapsed in 1971 when President Nixon severed […]
August 7, 2024
By MN Gordon – Econimic Prisim If there’s one thing to understand about […]
August 6, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET Payrolls at employers rose by 114,000 in July, below the […]
August 6, 2024
From The Economist How quickly the mood turns. Barely a fortnight ago stockmarkets […]
July 30, 2024
July 28, 2024
By Marc Chandler – Barrons The dollar’s long-anticipated downturn has begun, but don’t confuse […]
July 27, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The Bureau of Economic Analysis released today the PCE price […]
July 27, 2024
By Noah Smith – Asia Times In 2011, manufacturing productivity in the US hit […]
July 27, 2024
By Julia Wendling – Visual Capitalist Monetary policy, geopolitical events, and economic conditions—among […]
July 22, 2024
By Daniel Lacalle Why is the price of gold rising if the global […]
July 20, 2024
From Mining.com Over two-thirds of today’s junior miners are essentially worthless, says resource […]
July 18, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET Nvidia, after gaining $2.1 trillion YTD through July 10, gave […]
July 16, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The 6-month yield is now pricing in one rate cut […]
July 12, 2024
2024.07.11 Silver is up 33% year to date (July 8), gold is up […]
July 12, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista While progress in the fight against inflation has […]
July 7, 2024
By Frank Holmes – U.S. Global Investors Data supports the potential of commodities […]
July 6, 2024
Weekly Commentary – Credit Bubble Bulletin The grossly imbalanced U.S. economy may be […]
June 30, 2024
By Bruno Venditti – Visual Capitalist In 2023, American Baby Boomers owned 52% […]
June 28, 2024
From Goehring & Rozencwajg Adam Rozencwajg and Yra Harris joined the Financial Repression […]
June 27, 2024
From Mises Wire Perhaps nothing in financial news receives more attention than an […]
June 26, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET When the Bank of Canada cut its policy rates […]
June 24, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The US national debt – now $34.7 trillion, up from […]
June 22, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The question that’s on everyone’s mind is how long foreign […]
June 17, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista Social cohesion, adaptability and agility are qualities the […]
June 16, 2024
From The Economist In 2019 The Economist surveyed the research landscape in the country and asked […]
June 15, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET The Consumer Price Index for May, on a month-to-month […]
June 14, 2024
By Pallavi Rao – Visual Capitalist Popular brands have an intangible effect on […]
June 12, 2024
By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist A cashless society is one in which […]
June 12, 2024
By Alaric Nightingale – Bloomberg Drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants on […]
June 7, 2024
By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street “With continued evidence that underlying inflation is […]
June 5, 2024
From The Economist Nothing has been able to stop American consumers. At first they splashed […]
June 5, 2024
By Nazmul Ahasan and Robert Fullem – Bloomberg The market is pricing in around an 80% […]
June 1, 2024
From Goehring & Rozencwajg Leigh Goehring, Managing Partner at G&R and a seasoned […]
June 1, 2024
By Andrew S. Lewis – Bloomberg Its claws were exceptionally muscular, its six […]
May 30, 2024
From Bloomberg Odds are growing that 2024 will become the hottest year in […]
May 27, 2024
By Charles Hugh Smith – of two minds Money in all its forms […]
May 27, 2024
From The Economist Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964—and are the luckiest generation […]
May 25, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET This is kind of funny. Initial claims for unemployment insurance […]
May 24, 2024
By Vince Golle – Bloomberg The S&P Global flash May composite purchasing managers index advanced by […]
May 23, 2024
By Julia Wendling – Visual Capitalist Since 2010, the majority of China’s cross-border […]
May 18, 2024
By Cullen Hendrix – Barrons It is one thing to aspire to a “Made […]
May 18, 2024
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET After months of worsening data on CPI inflation, we got […]
May 13, 2024
From The Economst Although America has a deserved reputation as a country at […]
May 10, 2024
By Sarah Rappaport – Bloomberg The 14,830-acre plot lies approximately 40 miles away from […]
May 10, 2024
From Goehring & Rozencwajg Where does G&R stand on Bitcoin? Does Bitcoin deserve […]
May 9, 2024
2024.05.09 “Minsky Moment” refers to the idea that periods of bullish speculation will […]
April 30, 2024
2024.04.27 Investors in stocks, bonds and commodities should be aware of the rate […]
April 29, 2024
By Wolf Richter – WOLF STREET Americans hate, hate, hate inflation. But they’re liking the 5%-plus yields […]
April 28, 2024
By Teresa Rivas – Barron’s “Inflation metrics are the most important economic indicators right […]
April 27, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista The U.S. economy grew slower than expected in […]
April 26, 2024
By Elisabeth Buchwald – CNN At first glance, Thursday’s gross domestic product report showing […]
April 25, 2024
2024.04.21 What if the worst in interest rates is yet to come? Until […]
April 25, 2024
Fen The Economist There are good reasons to expect demand to pick up. […]
April 23, 2024
By Ruth Carson, Naomi Tajitsu, Carter Johnson and Tania Chen – Yahoo!finance The […]
April 20, 2024
By Felix Richter – Statista Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to […]