It’s all coming to a head. A point at which we know the outcome of. If central bankers do as they plan, the stock markets will fall. If they print more money, stock markets will rise. Which will it be? …
Here are today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. Global central banks can adopt negative rates as conventional tool: PBOC working paper https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ch… 2. No Exit in Sight for the World Record Holder in Negative Rates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl… 3. Pension …
by Shaun Richards Today brings an opportunity to look at a consequence of several economic themes. The opening one is related to the way that in both economic and currency terms the Euro is something of a super massive black …
by Chris Black If you’re a news hound like yours truly, this may not seem like breaking news to you, but what’s interesting is that despite Donald Trump’s first year in office which proved to be a boon for the …
TV vs. Trump in 2018: Lots of Russia, and 91% Negative Coverage (Again!) So far, 2018 looks an awful lot like 2017 — at least when it comes to the broadcast networks’ hostile approach to Donald Trump. A Media Research …
via Greg Schnell The Canadian market broke down and went negative for the year this week. The $TSX made its closing high on January 4th and has receded since then. The scale is in percentage terms from the last day of …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Or what the averages are hiding. We will start with income and see what’s left over, and for whom. Personal income increased by 4.1% in December from a year earlier, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today. …
by Anthony B Sanders At least the US Federal Reserve has been raising its target rate, albeit slowly, to 1.5%, The European Central Bank (ECB) has left its main refinancing rate at 0% since early 2016. And Bank of Japan’s …
via Kyler Hasson Summary Some portion of tax cuts will be passed along to consumers. Prior evidence shows that companies don’t see big benefits from tax cuts, on aggregate. High valuations mean low prospective returns for equity investors going forward. Tax …
by Robert Carbery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_vs._CNN.jpg I thought the press coverage of President Trump was slanted but I didn’t think it was this bad. The obvious bias has now been quantified in new research done by Pew Research Center looking into …
The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration. Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center …
by Mark Angelides The cap that President Trump has refused to lift on H-2B visas has forced companies all over the United States to do the unthinkable and hire American workers! What’s worse is that they are complaining that they …