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This week should bring another interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, as the futures markets are indicating. 1 Yet headline inflation has ticked up a bit after several months of moderation. 2 The recent CPI data suggests inflation is stalling above the Fed’s 2%… More >>

Last week’s jobs report presented new evidence that the U.S. labor market continues its delicate balancing act toward a soft landing. While the jobs report’s headline metric of nonfarm payrolls posted a 277,000 advance in November, another gauge of household employment… More >>

It's intuitively hard to invest when valuations on stocks are at record highs. Under normal circumstances, you would think that investments made at these levels would produce negative returns. According to J.P. Morgan, it’s quite the opposite. Historically, investing at… More >>

It might surprise many of you to know I ran for U.S. Congress once on a platform made up of a Wasteful Spending Commission. That was 20 years ago, and at that time voters didn’t care about $1.5 million to study dog fighting or the $500,000 Congress gave to Alaska Airlines… More >>