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April 2, 2024 – Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

Economic Commentary It is no fun being a member of the Federal Reserve right now. The economy continues to grow in spite of higher interest rates and inflation has calmed down. But inflation is still being a bit stubborn and it is taking a longer time to reach the Fed’s stated goal of 2.0% inflation rate. Here is the problem...” Read More

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March 26, 2024 – Fed: Nothing Doing.

Economic Commentary There is so much anticipation with every meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee, which meets around eight times per year. The analysts are over the top with predictions of actions and then they obsess on every word of their post meeting announcements. And a few weeks later, when the minutes of the meeting are released, it...” Read More

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March 19, 2024 – As baby boomers age, their homes are going to increasingly be hitting the open market. Will it Spring?

Economic Commentary Believe it or not, today is the first “night” of spring, as the Spring Equinox happens late this evening. This means that we are almost through the first quarter of the year. Spring is especially important not only because of the nice weather and the flowers, but also because it is prime real estate season. Going into the...” Read More

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March 12, 2024 – Renting More Expensive Than Ever.

Economic Commentary Between Friday and today we have quite the economic “one-two” punch. On Friday the jobs report was released, and this report showed an increase of 275,000 jobs, which on the surface was stronger than expected. Going back one more month, in January we had an impressive number of jobs added and therefore the “adjustment” in this number was...” Read More

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March 5, 2024 – Will You Buy A House With Me?

Economic Commentary Don’t know why, but the jobs machine is reminding us of that Credence Clearwater song “Proud Mary.” — “rolling, rolling, rolling on the river.” For months the Federal Reserve has been waiting for the growth of jobs to slow, but it has not happened. As a matter of fact, the growth spurt has gone on so long that...” Read More

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February 27, 2024 – This Year We Leap. Baby Boomers are making their presence felt.

Economic Commentary This year is a leap year. The one year in four that we have an extra day added to the calendar. Well, not exactly one in four, because when it comes to the earth orbiting the sun, it is not exactly an even number. It takes the earth 365 days 5 hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds to...” Read More

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February 20, 2024 – The Elusive Goldilocks

Economic Commentary We have seen so many words describing our economic climate during the past few years. Words/phrases such as soft-landing, stagflation, sticky inflation, recession, qualitative tightening and more. There are so many that it is hard to keep up with the nomenclature. This week, we would like to bring one more to the table—the famed Goldilocks. Yes, the character...” Read More

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February 13, 2024 – Is March The Month?

Economic Commentary The Federal Reserve has been quite busy this decade. We started this decade with an economy-halting pandemic in March of 2020. The Fed reacted quickly, pushing short-term rates to zero, as well as adding significant qualitative stimulus in the form of purchasing treasuries and mortgages, further pushing down long-term interest rates as well. Along with massive stimulus packages...” Read More

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February 6, 2024 – So, How Did We Do?

Economic Commentary The triple whammy of economic data has been released during the past two weeks. The question is—how did we do overall? We have already reported that economic growth for the 4th quarter came in at an estimated 3.3%, which puts the annual rate at around 3.1% before 4th quarter revisions. Overall, a very solid year of growth, especially...” Read More

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January 30, 2024 – The Data Starts to Roll in

Economic Commentary As we mentioned in our last column, this is an important period with regards to economic data and events. Late last week we got the ball rolling with the first estimate of economic growth for the 4th quarter (GDP). For the first three quarters of the year, the economy grew at an approximate rate of 3.0%, which is...” Read More

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April 2, 2024 – Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

March 26, 2024 – Fed: Nothing Doing.

March 19, 2024 – As baby boomers age, their homes are going to increasingly be hitting the open market. Will it Spring?

March 12, 2024 – Renting More Expensive Than Ever.

March 5, 2024 – Will You Buy A House With Me?

February 27, 2024 – This Year We Leap. Baby Boomers are making their presence felt.

February 20, 2024 – The Elusive Goldilocks

February 13, 2024 – Is March The Month?

February 6, 2024 – So, How Did We Do?

January 30, 2024 – The Data Starts to Roll in

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