public Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: February 12-16 Powell & Co. would like to see more evidence that inflation is falling toward their 2.0% target. They should…
paid Deep Dive • 3 min read DEEP DIVE: Productivity Is Making A Roaring Comeback Our Roaring 2020s economic scenario is predicated on our assumption that chronic labor shortages, especially of skilled workers, will cause…
public S&P 500 Sectors • 1 min read Not-So-Narrow Bull Market Have the S&P 500’s eight largest-capitalization stocks, the so-called MegaCap-8, been eating all the jellybeans, starving the…
paid S&P 500 Sectors • 1 min read S&P 500 Closes In On 5000 The S&P 500 closed at a new record high today of 4994.63. This is the Rodney Dangerfield…
paid Video Webcasts • 1 min read Dr Ed's Video Webcast 2/7/24 The pandemic distorted the economy in many ways, including derailing the productivity boom that we’d been expecting would characterize…
public MegaCap-8 • 2 min read MegaCap-8 Continue To Impress Through Friday’s close, the S&P 500 price index is up 4.0% ytd to a record high.…
paid Fed • 2 min read Powell On "60 Minutes" Fed Chair Jerome Powell wants to make sure we all get the message he delivered at his presser last Wednesday.…
paid Market Call • 3 min read Market Call: Meta's Universe Meta is leading the stock market to where it has never gone before, i.e., to new record highs. Its…
public Fed • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: February 4-9 Now that the latest meeting of the Federal Open Mouth Committee is over, we can expect lots of chatter from…
paid Employment • 2 min read Happy Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog, woke up this morning and did not see his shadow, calling for an early spring.…
paid Stock Market • 2 min read Market Dives As Powell Pushes Back As we expected, Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on market expectations of a federal funds rate cut in March…
paid Video Webcasts • 1 min read Dr Ed's Video Webcast 1/31/24 It doesn’t take a recession to bring down inflation to the Fed’s target! “Immaculate disinflation,” widely dismissed as…