We've said it many times – when the Federal Reserve has spent too much time focusing on bailing out the stock market anytime there is a 5% drop in stocks, sometimes the market does not react like you think it would.
During the 4th quarter of last year, stocks staged a
The economy continues to chug along and the pundits continue to marvel at its strength. The Fed is doing all but taking a victory tour in their ability to beat inflation without causing a recession. Very few people seem to be concerned about the prospects of a recession.
Last week
The S&P 500 and NASDAQ both closed at all-time highs on Friday. This adds to the already euphoric attitude most market participants had going into 2024. Nothing is on the horizon that can stop the stock train, or at least that's the current perception. For what it's worth,
Normal is a relative term. The definition even says "usual, average, or typical state or condition." For the past 4 years we've been living in anything but normal conditions with the pandemic, unprecedented actions to fight the pandemic (both health and economic policies), and then the fight to control the
It's hard to believe this is the 5th year of 'Monday Morning Musings'. This all started back in 2020 when there was so much happening I would post a 'brain dump' of all the things crossing my desk which I thought were important. Eventually the chaos of 2020 slowed down
