Defining Accommodative

by Michael Lebowitz Here are two statements from the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) immediately following their interest rate decisions of August 1, 2018 and September 26, 2018. August 1, 2018 – In view of realized and expected labor …

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Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon Tells It Like It Is

by John W. Whitehead “You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”—John Lennon (1969) Long before Bette …

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The Establishment Admits to a Second Financial Crisis

Up until very recently, there were essentially two kinds of business and economic reporting trends emanating since the 2008 Financial Crisis: Sanguine, triumphant and motivating news in the mainstream corporate transatlantic financial press, versus pensive, probing and skeptical viewpoints in …

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How I Go About Discovering New Trends

by jessefelder “The key to successful investing is having everyone agree with you — LATER.” -Jim Grant A while back my friend Mark Yusko introduced to an obscure book on investing and the markets called The Tao Jones Averages. In it, the author, …

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