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Weekly Update

With Interest Rates Rising, Debt Becomes a Concern


Published October 20,  2023

 

This recent article from Schwab examines the impact of debts, government and corporate, may be having on the market.

“One of our expectations highlighted in our 2023 outlook report, published in late 2022, was that the subject of the U.S. budget deficit and federal debt would increasingly become a part of the “conversation.” That has certainly been the case—heightened recently, courtesy of the runup in longer-term Treasury yields. In today’s report, we’ll focus on the government and corporate sectors, with a focus on consumers to come in later reports. (more…)

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Some Say Market Risks Are Rising


Published August 24, 2018

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In this week where the S&P 500 touched a new high, we thought it would be interesting to hear a more cautionary view. Below we reprint an excellent overview of the recent issues in Turkey (along with comments on the general economy and market) from the folks at Charles Schwab. (more…)

Weekly Update

The Fed’s Post-Crisis Strategy


Published June 2, 2017

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We are now a decade into the Federal Reserve’s latest period of monetary policy seeking to stimulate the economy. Prior periods of monetary policy focused on pushing very short-term interest rates higher or lower to accelerate or decelerate the economy and/or inflation. The unprecedented impacts of the financial crisis forced the Fed to adopt additional monetary policy tools, such as “quantitative easing” or “QE” for short. (more…)