17
Oct
2023
Q3 2023 Market Update: Climate Change
No, we’re not referring to the existential threat to humanity. We are, however, referring to the investment climate. The investment climate has had roughly 10-year[...]
Tag: The Federal Reserve
12
Oct
2022
Q3 2022 Market Update: Rear View
No, we are not referring to the 1954 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. We are referring to what Fed Chairman Powell seems to be looking[...]
13
Jul
2022
Q2 2022 Market Update: “Are We There Yet?”
The first half of year was the worst for the S&P 500 stock index since 1970, as it fell by nearly 21%. The technology-heavy NASDAQ[...]
13
Apr
2021
Q1 2021 Market Update: Caution: Slippery Road Ahead
Why caution at a time like this? The COVID vaccine rollout is far exceeding expectations, the federal government is pumping[...]
19
Jan
2021
Q4 2020 Market Update: The Amoral Market
There are times when it is discomfiting to be in this business. This is one of them. In a year of misery for millions and[...]
15
Jul
2020
Q2 2020 Market Update: Follow the Money
These are troubling and confounding times. In a recent poll, the vast majority of Americans said the country is going in the wrong direction. Amid[...]
07
May
2020
Night School: Modern Monetary Theory
Why, you might ask, is Clean Yield writing about an arcane economic theory in the midst of a pandemic and economic implosion? We were already[...]
13
Aug
2019
Q2 2019 Market Update: Beware of the Exhausted Market
It’s unavoidable to discuss world events without mentioning the occupant of the Oval Office, the autocrat wannabe. He reportedly is[...]