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Eric Linser, CFA | Mar. 2, 2011
Answer: Political protests!
While each participant has different political agendas, the commonality I see is contagion, or the spread of unrest.
In the Mid-West, particularly Wisconsin, a battle rages over public sector finances. Elected officials are pushing to eliminate or weaken collective bargaining by government employees' unions with the more ...
Phil Diamond, CFA | March 1, 2010
Consumer Confidence swooned in February from January. The drop from 56.5 to 46 was far sharper than economists were expecting. The drop was largely due to changing attitudes about the jobs market and the pace of economic improvement according to the Conference Board. Not to editorialize (but we will), the people they interviewed to reach this conclusion must more ...
We feel that one of the most fundamental decisions we face in building investment portfolios is correctly deciding whether we are facing an inflationary or deflationary environment in our future. Most investments behave quite differently depending on whether we are in a deflationary or inflationary environment. Get it wrong and your investment choices could rise up to bite you.
The Fed will fight deflation and knows how to do that (print money). They also know what to do more ...
recovery, interest rates, inflation, Muni bonds, global perspective & more
Eric Linser, CFA | Sept. 21, 2009
Here is our monthly perspective on events and trends affecting the economy, the financial markets, and investment management. First, let's take a look at an interesting chart and commentary from Morgan Stanley's chief European market strategist, Mr. Teun Draaisma, as to how much further the stock market could rally. We'll take a more ...
Phil Diamond, CFA | Sept. 8, 2009
TIPS are much in the news these days and also in the hearts of many investors. Is this the right approach? That depends. If you are looking at TIPS as a long-term hedge against inflation, then TIPS make a lot of sense, nearly all the time. As a tactical move, in anticipation of nearby inflation, we’re not so sure.
Let’s take a step back and look at TIPS before we go forward. TIPS, or Treasury Inflation-Protected more ...
Eric Linser, CFA | July 28, 2009
That is a good question, and in a similar vein it is like asking if Santa is for real. Well...kind of. Christmas is a time of gift giving, and the market rebound has offered us some gifts as well. It now appears that we have moved away from the Armageddon scenario of last year, and are rebuilding, be it ever so slowly. With the markets on the right trajectory as of recent, it seems safe to come out of our bunkers again. The rocky more ...
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