paid Employment • 2 min read Hooray! Job Openings & Quits Fall The stock market rallied on Friday, Monday, and today despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish speech at Jackson Hole…
paid Fed • 2 min read The Urge To Merge When the banking crisis occurred during March, we concluded that the Fed's emergency liquidity response would contain the…
paid Banks • 2 min read Rolling Recession Rolling Over Commercial Real Estate (CRE) The rolling recession is rolling over the commercial real estate market (CRE), especially the market for urban office buildings. In…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: July 24-28 The Fed is widely expected to hike the federal funds rate (FFR) on Wednesday by 25bps to a range of…
paid Sentiment • 2 min read Market Not Fazed By Bearish Fed and Nvidia Talk The stock market held up remarkably well yesterday despite Fed Chair Jerome Powell's warning that "there'…
paid Inflation • 2 min read Core Inflation: The True Story A few of our QT members asked us to explain why core CPI inflation, which has been so sticky over…
paid Fed • 2 min read A Hawkish Skip at the Fed In this past Sunday's QT, we wrote: "On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will update us on…
paid Stock Market • 2 min read The Bull Was Pleasantly Surprised by May's CPI Today Stock prices rallied from the open today on May's CPI report. It wasn't surprisingly good. But…
paid Week Ahead • 2 min read The Economic Week Ahead: June 12-16 This will be a head spinning week. It could also be another rollercoaster ride in the financial markets. Maybe we…
paid Unemployment • 2 min read Two Known Knowns About the Economy Investors are confused: Is the economy strong or is it weak? The answer is "Yes." The labor market…