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The Upside to the Shutdown

After an Oval Office impasse Tuesday evening leaving the continuing resolution bill unsigned, the US government began furloughing non-essential services and employees.  At stake?  The

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Show Me The Money!

Central banks worldwide spent much of 2022–2023 draining the liquidity they had pumped into markets after COVID to combat accelerating inflation. Since then, inflationary pressures

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A Risk Management Cut 

The Fed convened last week and cut base interest rate policy by 0.25%. In the press conference that followed, Fed Chair Jerome Powell described this

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Lower Jobs, Higher Stocks

Recent reports on the state of the US labor market have been dispiriting to say the least. Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released

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The Boys of Fall: Powell, Trump, and the Data

September and October have always carried weight in markets. They’re months when volatility tends to pick up, mutual fund fiscal years come to an end,

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Checking the Boxes

As a Philadelphia Philles baseball fan, I often spend late August dreaming of “Red October”. With 162 games played in a season, baseball is an endurance

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Then and Now

The first half of 2025 has been anything but dull. In my blog posts so far this year, I’ve covered everything from policy shifts in