Economy
The Public Debt GDP Growth Gap
Despite the fact that economic growth levels are starting to tail off, when we look at economic growth since 2000 on a nominal dollar year-over-year ……Read More
Economy
Economy
LMCI Measuring the Real Strength of the American Labor Market
While the mainstream media focuses on the headline U-3 monthly unemployment statistic, there is another little-reported labor market indicator that the Federal Reserve uses to ……Read More
Economy
Shadow Insurance The Next Financial Sector Crisis?
Many Americans (and people in other nations around the world) do business with life insurance companies, either purchasing life insurance policies or annuities that they ……Read More
Economy
Why Low Interest Rates Are Ineffective
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Federal Reserve will have to be even more creative during the next economic slowdown since the effectiveness of ……Read More
Economy
Unintended Consequences III The Banking Sector
The International Monetary Fund recently released its quarterly Global Financial Stability Report for the third quarter of 2016 and its contents form the perfect posting ……Read More
Economy
The Real Value of the Federal Reserve’s Interest Rate Projections
Every word from the Federal Reserve's "mouth" is parsed by the global financial markets which are looking for some hint of what lies ahead for ……Read More