The Impact of Trump’s Economic Proposals on Prices: A Mixed Bag Analysis
Introduction Today’s article from the Forecasts & Trends E-Letter by Henry Rohlfs presents what the Penn Wharton Budget Model sees as the major components of the economic policies of the Trump administration and the Wharton School’s analysis of how they could affect the economy and your pocketbook. (Listen to our theme song, Money, Money, Money, […]
Could The S&P 500 Reach 10,000 By 2029? Here’s Why and Why Not
Introduction The S&P 500 has seen an impressive surge of late, climbing past 6,000 and sparking significant optimism in the financial markets. Lance Roberts highlights in an article that economist Ed Yardeni anticipates that: the S&P 500 will reach 6,100 by the end of 2024, with additional gains to 7,000 by 2025 and 8,000 by 2026 […]
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Rising U.S. Deficits/Debt/Interest Rates Won’t Lead to a Fiscal Crisis
Paul Tudor Jones recently voiced concerns that rising U.S. deficits and debt and increasing interest rates could lead to a fiscal crisis. His perspective reflects the long-standing fear that sustained borrowing will trigger inflation, raise interest rates, and eventually overwhelm the government’s ability to manage its debt obligations. In short, his thesis is that interest rates […]
Current Irrational Market Exuberance Increasing Correction Risk
Introduction As pointed out by Lance Roberts in an excellent article entitled Exuberance – Investors Have Rarely Been So Optimistic (and from which much of the content in this article has been quoted) “Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller famously coined “irrational exuberance” to describe situations where speculative behavior pushes asset prices far above intrinsic values. Shiller’s […]
Countries Are Deeply Indebted & Headed For Trouble – Here’s Why
“The history of financial crises is that when an accident is waiting to happen, it eventually does and, when countries become too deeply indebted, they are headed for trouble. When debt-fueled asset price explosions seem too good to be true, they probably are but the exact timing can be very difficult to guess, and a […]