Last week’s big economic and market news was the election. What might it tell us about the future? Let’s take a closer look.
November 14, 2016
Last week’s big economic and market news was the election. What might it tell us about the future? Let’s take a closer look.
November 11, 2016
As predicted, the world did not end upon Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. In fact, from an economic and market perspective, it has appeared to be good news, at least so far. Of course, it’s still early days, and the question now is, What happens next?
November 10, 2016
Although many were predicting a significant pullback on Mr. Trump’s election, we, in fact, got a fairly significant advance. What’s up with that? I suspect there are several reasons.
We woke up this morning to a new era.
For the past several years, the United States has had either a Democrat-controlled government or a divided government. As a result of yesterday’s vote, Republicans will soon control the presidency, the Senate, and the House.
This morning, I was on CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange discussing deregulation and offering thoughts on market volatility in the wake of the presidential election.
November 8, 2016
It’s finally Election Day, the moment when all the sound and fury comes down to one thing: a voter, standing in a booth, making a decision about how he or she envisions the future. Everything up until now has been so much noise, but this is what matters.
November 7, 2016
Last week’s wide-ranging data started to give us an idea of whether economic growth (and perhaps even faster growth) continues.
November 4, 2016
After significant bouncebacks in the major indicators over the past couple of months, we saw a bit of a pullback in several components of the data in October. With signs of slowing job growth and a drop in consumer confidence, the positive changes in trend we hoped for last month may have been put on hold.
November 3, 2016
Today will be a short post. I’m in Austin, Texas, at the Commonwealth National Conference, and I’m heading out early this morning to participate in our giving back initiative.
November 2, 2016
After months of election hype and angst, next week we should know who the next president and Congress will be. What then?
