The Federal Reserve tries and tries and just can’t muster up some price-tag ripping price inflation. Blowing up its balance sheet from $900 billion to $4.5 trillion would have seemed to send us to Z...
Gold prices ended Monday’s session up $17.85, helped by a slumping U.S. dollar index that hit a 15-month low. Trump administration’s mounting problems and the recent turbulence in world stock mark...
It seems as though the practice of using one’s home as a personal ATM machine is making a ‘yuge’ comeback of late thanks, at least in part, to the same aggressive lending terms and a...
The much anticipated Jackson Hole Symposium that began on Thursday last week ended without a bang. While investors were hopeful that the central bankers would address monetary policy, it was indeed th...
Ok, so here’s another one of these “what hath Harvey wrought” fun factoids. There are going to be a lot of these in the days ahead. Yesterday we noted that RV stocks are on the move (get it?) ...
Over the past century, buying and holding dividend growth stocks has been one of the most reliable ways to build wealth. But it’s important to be nimble with your investments, to question old assump...
It finally happens. After rising very gradually towards the very ground level, the world’s most popular currency pair made a decisive breakout and reached a new high of 1.2020. Update: the pair exte...
For decades, the public generally placed its trust in technocrats, the people perceived to be skillful and knowledgeable managers of economically and politically important institutions (including bank...
Market Analysis Farm Journal’s Midwest Crop Tour results suggest this year’s US corn crop is highly variable because of 2017’s WCB dryness during the growing season & heavy rains prompting d...
This morning the Dallas Fed released its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey (TMOS) for August. The latest general business activity index came in at 17.0, up from 16.8 in July. Here is an excerpt fr...