by wpadmin | Oct 2, 2025 | Perspectives
Currently, four tech firms have announced that over the next three years they intend to spend a collective $710 billion to establish dominance in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The stock market has bid up the prices of their shares in reflection of the individual...
by wpadmin | Aug 21, 2025 | Perspectives
Illegal immigration is very much in the news. The deportation of immigrants is a central focus of the Trump administration, along with its campaign to reduce interest rates. For this reason, a pursual of the data may be helpful in examining the scope and approach to...
by wpadmin | Jul 29, 2025 | Perspectives
Much of the financial press focuses on the largest companies. Indeed, the top ten stocks make up 37 percent of the value of the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index. This means that the remaining 490 firms make up the remaining 63 percent. Sort of the tail wagging the dog....
by wpadmin | Jul 1, 2025 | Perspectives
Last Wednesday Congress passed legislation permitting organizations such as Walmart and Amazon to issue their own stablecoins. The implication of this is that large retailers (and others) can in effect create their own exclusive currency. Such currency would only be...
by wpadmin | May 30, 2025 | Perspectives
In the past month interest rates have been going up—a lot. Most of the action has occurred at the long end of the yield curve (10 to 30 years). A year ago, there was not a lot of difference between the yield on a 10- and 30-year US Treasury bond. As of last Friday,...
by wpadmin | Apr 29, 2025 | Perspectives
As we come to the end of the first 100 days of the Trump administration and look for clues for the remaining 1,360 days of his term, it is becoming obvious that the effort to remake world commerce by leveling tariffs on our trading partners has been less than a total...
