When inflation spiked last year, companies responded by raising their prices. As price pressures started to ease, companies opted to prioritize pricing over volume. It was a fairly broad-based trend.
Read moreTrust in elected officials has been in steady decline for decades. One reason is Americans feel the game is rigged against them. It’s hard to decide if members of Congress and other elected officials are self-serving or civil servants.
Read moreThe envisioned benefits of ESG investing—owning companies that follow responsible environmental, social, and governance policies—have failed to materialize.
Read moreIf you listen to the financial media, you’d think seven stocks are responsible for “the market’s” gain this year. But the charts are telling us otherwise.
Read moreThe cost of college has risen so high that more than half of Americans no longer think a college education is “worth it.”
Read moreThe release of ChatGPT late last year triggered a firestorm of debate about both the promise and dystopian risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Some have labeled it the Great AI Freak Out of 2023.
Read moreAny sense of normal will remain elusive until we address what Bruce describes as “addictions.”
Read moreWe are finally hearing a resolution may be in sight for the debt ceiling, though I suspect this will drag out to Monday or even Tuesday. Why waste a good crisis, after all?
Read moreDo the days and weeks seem shorter to you lately? Maybe that’s an unkind feature of getting older. I have so much more I want to learn and understand, and not enough time to process it all.
Read moreA stress test is exactly that: a test. It is a mix of assumptions about adverse events and their theoretical outcomes. Ironically, the Fed released its 2023 bank stress test scenarios just weeks before the latest banking crisis erupted.
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