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Articles About Social Security
Inflation – What Are We Watching?
By: Phil Kernen Financial market news is full of inflation; what caused it, what it means for us now, and how we need to address it. We can't wish higher prices away, but how [...]
Second-Order Effects
By: Phil Kernen Over the last four decades, one strength of Federal Reserve leadership has been emphasizing energy prices for their impact on economic growth and inflation potential. That focus and willingness to act [...]
Why Are Natural Gas Prices So High?
By: Phil Kernen Natural Gas Gas prices at the corner stations are going up. As of May 18, the average cost of gas in all fifty states exceeded $4 per gallon, about 25% higher [...]
A Curious State of Forecasting
By: Phil Kernen As globalization increased over the last decades, the correlation has grown between developed market economies. While trading connections expanded and more producers looked to the same source for goods, economic data [...]
Is Bitcoin Functionally Useless
By: Phil Kernen In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender via the "Bitcoin Law." Under the law, government agencies and businesses must accept bitcoin as a medium [...]
Unrealized Losses at the Fed
By: Phil Kernen For the last decade, the Federal Reserve has been the biggest bond buyer in the U.S. Treasury and Mortgage-Backed Bond markets, expanding its balance sheet from about $800 million to more [...]
Inflation Excess
By: Phil Kernen Over the last several decades, globalization took root, delivering the affordable goods we demanded when and where we wanted. COVID-19 turned that efficient system upside down, breaking supply chains and raising [...]
Natural Interest Rate
By: Phil Kernen Monetary officials recently make more frequent references to the natural interest rate, setting investor expectations for upcoming rate increases to curtail demand and lower inflation. The natural rate represents where they [...]
Betting On America
By: Grant LacKamp After decades of expansion, economic globalization is in retreat. Trade frictions arising under nationalistic-minded governments accelerated throughout COVID. More and more companies are looking to locate production as near as practicable [...]