by Ted Bauman | Jan 19, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Stocks, U.S. Economy
Once upon a time, parents told their children scary stories at bedtime to get them to behave. Mine wielded Maurice Sendak’s incomparable Where the Wild Things Are (although I found it more exciting than frightening). What scary stories does the stock market tell...
by Ted Bauman | Jan 15, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Stocks, U.S. Economy
Wall Street has good reason to worry that rising inflation could send stock prices tumbling. Higher prices in the real economy are inherently bad for the stock market. And — as I show using charts drawn from a recent article by Lyn Alden Schwartzer — three converging...
by Ted Bauman | Jan 8, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Government & Politics, Stocks, U.S. Economy
“The Dow Closes at Record High as Protestors Storm the Capitol,” read one headline on Wednesday. In today’s video, you’ll find out how much a small-scale insurrection attempt is worth for the stock market. I also break down what the other most important news of the...
by Ted Bauman | Jan 4, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Stocks, U.S. Economy
I bet many investors — me included — woke up on January 1 and asked themselves, “What the heck just happened?” I’m not talking about New Year’s Eve excess. I’m talking about the year gone by. Amid a deadly global pandemic, the U.S. economy suffered one of the biggest...
by Clinton Lee | Dec 2, 2020 | Bauman Daily, Cloud Computing, Federal Reserve, Housing Market, Investing, Quantitative Easing, U.S. Economy
Here we go again… Get ready for more headlines over another stimulus package. Congress has reconvened with a busy schedule over the next couple of weeks. First, lawmakers must reach a deal by the end of next week on a new spending plan to fund the federal government...
by Ted Bauman | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Financial Crisis, Bauman Daily, Investing, Stocks, U.S. Economy
On Monday, I argued that the stock market is bullish on the likelihood of a tax-and-spend government in January. Many commenters reacted negatively — but against a point I wasn’t making! In today’s video, I show you why, regardless of one’s opinions about taxes,...
