The Fed has cut its policy rate by 25 basis points, with one dissenting vote, as weak unemployment numbers gave the monetary authorities cover to

This week the S&P 500 touched 6587, only 13 points or 0.01% lower than the 6600 target that I had conjectured 12 months ago. Thus

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Jerome H. Powell said four big things in his much-anticipated final speech as Fed Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank, at the annual symposium hosted

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The U.S. has been transformed into a high-tariff economy. With almost 200 countries now facing duties between 10% and 50%, the Yale Budget Lab projects

The U.S. has been transformed into a high-tariff economy with indications that a 15% tariff is the baseline rate for most imports, with higher duties

Hard-rock Republicans are intensifying pressure in a distasteful spectacle on Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, to leave Washington for good. The White House

Many marvel at how the US stock markets have shrugged off dramatic geopolitical and geoeconomic events, stemming from left- and right- wing populism that may

By now all investors are aware of Trump’s disdain for Jerome Powell in his effort to pressure the monetary officials of the Fed to cut

Given that we have witnessed a radical transformation of the Middle East, now that Iran has been presumably de-nuked, predicting geopolitical developments there may become