If you thought fundamentals, valuations and earnings growth matter the joke is on you. In 2020 central banks have managed to do the unthinkable: Not only once again save investors from any […]
Extremes become more extreme right up until they reverse, a reversal no one believes possible here in the waning days of 2020.
When Ludwig van Beethoven was born in December 1770, the world was a different place. And while the German composer and pianist who would have turned 250 today is naturally long gone, he left a musical legacy that endured centuries. Until today, Beetho…
Conventional wisdom says that the weeks leading up to Christmas are the most important time of the year for retailers in the United States. According to the National Retail Federation, Americans are going to spend between $755 and $767 billion in the m…
Personal Spending in the United States increased 0.50 percent in October of 2020 over the previous month. Personal Spending in the United States averaged 0.53 percent from 1959 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 8.70 percent in May of 2020 and a …
Whatever your Christmas plans this year, chances are this festive period won’t resemble any in recent memory. With the country still fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, estrictions on our daily lives force us to adapt our behaviour and our life plans to pr…
However you plan to spend Christmas this year, it is unlikely to resemble any festive period in recent memory. With the world still battling the Covid-19 pandemic, wide-ranging restrictions on our daily lives continue to force us to adapt our behaviour…
The COVID-19 vaccine is finally entering the arms of the first Americans after less than a year of research and development. The amazing feat of medical science signals the beginning of the end for an unprecedented global pandemic that’s killed over 1….
Remote work has proved to be an effective replacement for many companies and employees throughout the year. While the absence of in-person collaboration has been tough to recreate, workflow and the organizational structure of workers has adapted well f…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.