“Bring on the Trade War!” Today is Jobs Friday, but before I get to the jobs report, I want to talk a little bit about
Upping the Ante The shot heard around the world in the ever-escalating trade war was fired last night by Donald Trump, threatening to impose another
ECB Announces Dovish Tightening The big market-moving central bank announcement this week was not the Fed. They came out with their so-called “hawkish hike”, but
Market Movers: Singapore Summit We’ve got a lot of potentially market-moving events going on this week; we’ve got the Summit which I think is getting
Biggest Move in Crude Oil Not much action today in the stock markets on this Friday before a 3-day Memorial Day holiday weekend. The action
Extreme Volatility It was another extremely volatile day in the U.S. stock market. When I finished my podcast on Monday and we had that big
NASDAQ New High The stock market had one of its best days of the year; I think it was the second best day. The Dow
Continued Stock Market Volatility The U.S. stock market continues to be extremely volatile, and as I have said many times on this podcast, I think
Trade, Comparative Advantage and Protectionism I want to devote this entire podcast on the subject of trade and comparative advantage and protectionism, and this trade
Earlier this morning we got the first look at Q4 GDP As I suggested on the last podcast, in fact as I have been saying
