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Over the last few weeks, we have shared information about the troubles facing the commercial real estate (CRE) market and the regional banks that made CRE loans (
CRE Pain is Just Getting Started
The vacancy rate of commercial real estate is higher today than at any point in the 2008 global financial crisis, per the
QE Light May Allow the Fed to Help the Treasury
With inflation remaining sticky well above the Fed’s 2% target and the economy showing few signs of weakness, the Fed will find it difficult to cut rates meaningfully. Furthermore, endin...
Fed Dot Plot Projections Point To Stronger Growth And Rate Cuts
The last release of the Fed’s quarterly Summary of Economic Projections, aka dot plots, was in December. At the time, the median 2024 GDP projection of the 19 Fed members was a relativel...
The BOJ Ends Historic Run Of Negative Rates
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has finally ended its eight-year run of negative interest rates. On Tuesday morning, the BOJ boosted their overnight rate from -.10% to a range of 0% to 0.10%. Furt...
Quartz The Underappreciated Economic Lynchpin
In Spruce Pine, North Carolina, one small area supplies the world with high-purity quartz. Spruce Pine Quartz ranks among the world’s most important economic minerals. The following desc...
CRE Loans Threaten Regional Banks
The following commentary is from The National Bureau of Economic Research
MicroStrategy Investors Are Buying Bitcoin At A Massive Premium
Microstrategy (MSTR) provides its customers with business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Despite losing money and zero growth in revenues over the last ten years,...
Sticky Inflation And Fed Policy In Context
Over the last few months, the downward inflation trend has slowed appreciably. Such leads some to conclude that inflation is sticky and likely to stay around current levels instead of retu...
Blackrock Works For Blackrock Not You
Wall Street banks, brokers, and asset managers put out market research, which can be of great value. While valuable, we read their research with skepticism and question its authenticity. F...
