by Michael Lebowitz | Feb 6, 2019 | Markets/Economy
Economics on Gilligan’s Island Famed economist Henry Hazlitt wrote the economics classic, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics. The book is quite popular and has sold well over one million copies. While the content is...
by Michael Lebowitz | Feb 6, 2019 | Markets/Economy
If you haven’t heard about Modern Monetary Theory, or “MMT” for short, by now, you will soon. It is highly likely that MMT will be increasingly touted by economists and politicians from both sides of the aisle, as the economic prescription, even panacea, to cure our...
by Lance Roberts | Feb 5, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice, Secular Bulls/Bears
On December 25th, I penned “My Christmas Wish” where in I stated that is was “now or never” for the bulls to make a stand. “If we take a look back at the markets over the last 20-years, we find that our weekly composite technical gauge has only reached this level of...
by Lance Roberts | Feb 3, 2019 | Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
It’s 4:40am on Friday morning and I am sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Vancouver, B.C. One thing about being at the airport this early…there is no line…for anything. Anyway, I am on my way to present at the annual MoneyTalk Conference where I am...
by Jesse Colombo | Jan 24, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The global elite are meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week and are richer than ever. Bloomberg reports – World Economic Forum Attendees mingle between sessions in Davos, 2009.Photographer: Adam Berry/Bloomberg A decade after the financial crisis poured flat...
by Lance Roberts | Jan 17, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy
In August of last year, I wrote an article entitled “As Good As It Gets“ which discussed the record levels being set by a broad swath of economic indicators. To wit: “First, “record levels” of anything are records for a reason. It is where the point where previous...
