If this were a normal week, we’d be talking about the Friday jobs report, the state of the economy, and the possibility that the Federal Reserve won’t lower interest rates again in December, especially in light of Chair Jerome Powell’s comments last week. But it’s not a normal week. The government has officially been shut…Read more
Something’s Gotta Give You’ve heard us talk about “relationship problems” in financial markets in the past. It’s the phrase we use to point out when variables that typically behave a certain way in relation to one another are behaving outside those norms. Often the abnormal behavior is not the “problem” per se, but that these…Read more
The government is still shut down, and that means that investors continue to fly partially blind without much of the economic data they normally rely on. Are there any skeletons in the economy’s closet? For now, those answers mostly elude us. (Though September’s Consumer Price Index, one of the few metrics we’ve gotten since the…Read more
