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Guy Haselmann: The Fed's Stop-and-Start Journey
In Loving Memory of Dear Great Aunt Addy by Guy Haselmann, Director, Capital Markets Strategy, Scotiabank GBM · …
August 18, 2014
Prepare, Don’t Predict: Building Resilient Portfolios with Private Credit
For decades, investors climbed the 60/40 ladder with confidence. Now, every step feels less steady. High inflation that refuses to budge, interest rates that won’t come down anytime soon, and the growing correlation between stocks and bonds...
Getting Closer: Fed Continues its Tapering & Moving Toward Rate Hikes
Getting Closer: Fed Continues its Tapering & Moving Toward Rate Hikes by Liz Ann Sonders July 30, 2014…
July 31, 2014
Six Current Economic Myths And Realities
Submitted by Patrick Barron via Mises Canada, The following are six of the most prevalent economic myths that…
July 31, 2014
3 Reasons Yellen's FOMC Remains Dovish
by Sober Look What makes Janet Yellen and a number of other FOMC members so dovish with…
July 29, 2014
The Fed: Connecting the Dots
by Collin Martin, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. June 18, 2014 Key Points The Fed announced an additional…
June 19, 2014
Accelerating Taper? No Better Time Than The Present
by Guy Haselmann, Director, Capital Markets Strategy, Scotiabank The market is highly confident that it has a good…
June 18, 2014
ECB's TLTRO Impact Questioned as the Carry Trade Provides Easy Money
by Sober Look The Eurozone banks' longer-term borrowings from the central banking system continue to decline, a trend…
June 17, 2014
Why New ECB Stimulus is Unlikely to Revive European Economy
Why New ECB Stimulus is Unlikely to Revive European Economy by Kathy Jones, Schwab Center for Financial Research…
June 13, 2014
Real Yields are Falling – Why is Gold Dropping?
Gold weakness is inconsistent with loose monetary conditions in the US Gold has been selling off sharply recently.…
June 3, 2014
We Shouldn't Be Shocked By This New Proposal... But We Are
by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Prof. Ken Rogoff’s book ‘This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of…
May 30, 2014
James Kunstler: America's "To-Do" List
by James H. Kunstler via Kunstler.com, History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just…
May 27, 2014
Risk of Disappointment from the ECB in June Remains High
by Sober Look The euro area recovery continues to be uneven. The economy is clearly expanding, but while…
May 27, 2014
Behold the Bounce Back in Risk Parity Returns
by Macro Man Although tomorrow's Fed minutes will likely attempt to elucidate some semblance of a revamped exit…
May 21, 2014
Higher Rates on the Horizon? Three Implications
Investors were temporarily taken aback last week by the prospect of an earlier-than-expected rate hike. While it’s not…
March 25, 2014
Inflation Does Not Produce Economic Growth
by Frank Shostak via the Ludwig von Mises Institute, After settling at 3.9 percent in July 2011 the…
March 19, 2014