Employment
AI Set to Push Unemployment Rate Way Higher
The artificial intelligence (AI)-led stock market rally of the past year is showing few signs of letting up,...
Soft Landing Premise Still Driving Bullish Narrative
It is hard to find a seasoned investor who doesn’t believe the stock market is overbought on a...
Big Week for Economic Data to Prove a Fed Pause is the Right Move
Following Fed Chair Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole, stocks initially traded off and were able to grind out...
Has This Become a Four Letter Word in America?
**************************************************************** Hi, Grant Linhares here, the Trading Services Director for Mark Skousen. I want to let you know...
Don’t Fear the AI Reaper
When one of the biggest and most important companies ever announces a fiscal push toward the use of...
Indiana Jones (A.K.A. Mark Skousen) Enters the Temple of Doom and Gloom!
“If you want to be a good archeologist, you gotta get out of the library!” -- Indiana Jones’s...
Emerging Market Debt Reaches a Breaking Point
For the better part of 2022, the about face and stampede to raise rates by the Federal Reserve...
My Run-In With Paul Krugman, Again!
“The Inflation Reduction Act was our last chance to escape catastrophe.” -- Paul Krugman at the World Knowledge...
The Highest Yields That Make Perfect Sense
This past Friday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell delivered an amazingly dovish speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that caught...
A Good Time to Buy Bonds That Are Tied to Stock Market Performance
I’m not sure about the last time such a divide over the direction of interest rates and bond...