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The Home Straight: Yields, Earnings, and the AI Economy in Focus
Deutsche Bank Research's September 2026 Monthly Chartbook, "The Home Straight,"1 arrives at a moment of unusual clarity and…
September 8, 2026
The Second Space Age: Capital, Competition, and the Orbital Frontier
The Goldman Sachs Global Institute has published what amounts to a landmark orientation document for anyone thinking seriously…
August 18, 2026
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Wesbury: Is US Democracy at Risk?
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios As we…
July 13, 2026
Denise Chisholm: The Midterm Effect - And Its Limits
by Denise Chisholm, Director of Quantitative Market Strategy, Fidelity Investments The four-year presidential cycle is one of the…
July 2, 2026
W’s to V’s: Dip-buying in Market Recoveries
by Craig Basinger, Derek Benedet, Brett Gustafson & Spencer Morgan, Purpose Investments Pavlovian conditioning, discovered by giving dogs…
May 4, 2026
Modest Government Spending Shrinkage
by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist, & Robert Stein, Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios The federal government is…
April 20, 2026
Trump and the Global Chessboard
by Samuel Rines, Macro Strategist, Model Portfolios, WisdomTree ey Takeaways Current geopolitical tensions are unlikely to evolve into…
April 5, 2026
The Sword of Damocles Over the Global Economy
by Ed d'Agostino, COO, Mauldin Economics I sat down with Jacob Shapiro this week, my go-to expert on all things…
March 15, 2026
The Global Oil Complex and the War of Regime Change
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Contrary to adversaries, who called the prediction markets run by Kalshi…
March 1, 2026
Geopolitics Is Back — The Weaponization of Oil
When Wilfred Frost introduces Helima Croft as “perhaps the most plugged-in person to global energy markets across the…
February 8, 2026
How U.S. midterm elections may affect markets
by Matt Miller and Chris Buchbinder, Capital Group With everything happening in the world — from the U.S.…
February 5, 2026
The Order Is Rapidly Fadin’
by Ed d'Agostino, COO, Mauldin Economics Every so often, a single word surfaces and cuts through the noise. If…
January 30, 2026
The Fed Chose Politics
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portolios…
January 20, 2026
Legal investigation of Fed Chair Powell presents new risk to markets
by Brian Levitt & Ben Jones, Global Market Strategist, Invesco Key takeaways New investigation - Recent news indicates…
January 14, 2026
The Fog of War in Energy Markets – Eric Nuttall Cuts Through the Panic
In a week where oil markets were rattled by geopolitical upheaval, portfolio shifts, and speculative frenzy, Eric Nuttall,…
January 13, 2026