Money Matters: US Inflation & The Fed
US Consumer Price Inflation released today surprised to the upside. Core CPI at 2.3% is comfortably above the Fed's inflation target of 2%. As...
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Money Matters: I Mera Tis Marmotas
On my Latin key board "I Mera Tis Marmotas" is the closest I can get to the Greek for groundhog day. Traditionally celebrated at the start of...
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Case-Shiller Property Indices Hugely Misleading...and Different from Stocks (LT Invst Windows Tight)
This topic has nagged me for some time. Two months ago when the Case-Shiller Home Price Index “made a new high” and after new highs again this...
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Tech Rebounds as USD Reverses, Macau Recovery Continues...
The consensus expected a rampant USD this year, but this wasn’t consistent with the Trump trade agenda – the dollar has had its worst January in...
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Battle Lines in Payments: An Evaluation of the War for Wallets
We think economic moats remain the strongest at the center of the payment ecosystem, where Visa Inc (V US) and Mastercard Inc (MA US) maintain...
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