“The war in the Middle East has increased volatility in global energy prices and financial markets, and heightened the risks to the global economy. The breadth and duration of the conflict, and hence ...

Among the usual results for the young (63% want to buy, 71% equate real estate with financial independence) was a measure of just how deep the fetish runs. The bank asked what level of sacrifice the ...

Apparently unfazed over blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Cody was into her knee. Big sniffs. “He must smell my pooch,” the unknown woman on the sidewalk offered. But they all say that. Dogs tend to ...

Stick a fork in it. Done like dinner. The latest government stats on jobs and the economy could hardly be worse, and must ...

This is shaping up to be the most moribund, comatose, on-life-support market since the Great Ennui of the early 1990s. Then we had a recession, stiffer interest rates and job stress.

The TACO trade resumed this week, reinforcing two cardinal rules. Never bet against America. Always hedge against Trump. The Trump-Always-Chickens-Out scenario was in full flower yesterday during the ...

Finally! Some encouraging news on the inflation front. After the sharpest surge in prices since the early 1980s, inflation ...

Big Daddy was in Tokyo to cut a new strategic Canada-Japan deal yesterday. Before that he was taking selfies on the tarmac in Australia. Another deal there. And he went to India, too, rekindling ...

Sellers are shunning a race to that bottom. And now we have a scary war in the Middle East that could screw up any recovery ...

This is because of oil, which has jumped (but not spiked) in price. Since the White House has no clue when this conflict will ...

Pieces like the one from Citrini Research tend to resonate because pessimism often sounds sophisticated, especially when it blends legitimate concerns about AI, employment, and financial markets into ...

While the award-winning macroeconomists in the steerage section are forecasting market meltdown and a 50% plop in stocks, ...