This week’s guest on the show is Eric Mason. Eric is a CFO, an economist, and a TEDx speaker. He is the current Chief Financial Officer for Quincy, Massachusetts. where he provides direct analysis of…
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Recession, Recovery, or Both?
The markets are starting to feel like Groundhog Day. Almost every month, it’s a cadence of employment numbers, CPI, Fed, — market reacts. With inflation starting to trend down, even if only slightly, optimism has…
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November Market Commentary: Powell Threads the Needle
October Recap and November Outlook Economic data showed some movements in the right directions, both up and down. The Federal Reserve responded by talking about letting the economy catch up to the rate increases already…
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October Market Commentary
September Recap and October Outlook The Fed raised the key short-term interest rate by another 75 basis points at the September FOMC meeting, but the big news wasn’t the well-anticipated rate increase. It was Chairman…
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Are Fed Actions Working? Parsing the New Data
After April’s downturn, the first two weeks of May have not seen substantial improvement. By Thursday, May 12, markets were dangerously close to bear territory. The Fed enacted a 50-basis point increase in the Fed…
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GMB Ep #117: A Top Economist’s Take on Personal Finance With Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff
Economics applies to every industry at the individual, national, and global level. In this week’s episode, we have a distinguished guest who is on a mission to make economics useful at all levels. Dr….
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Reflections on the Pandemic So Far
We are currently somewhere around day 60 of our family’s quarantine during the pandemic, and the country is inching closer to reopening. Over those 60(ish) days I worked remotely from home, and held a TON…
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