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The Current Malaise: The Failure Of Stimulus

Alhambra Investment Partners’ Dr. John Chapman discusses the current malaise:

Recent data on the U.S. economy are not encouraging, and calls for a recession have risen in recent months. But there is after all a big difference between an economy growing at 1-2%, and one not growing, or shrinking, as in Europe at [...]

The Economy Is Sliding Into A Stagflationary Spiral

This article discusses the current path our economy is taking. While most economists believe the Q1 GDP stumble was a temporary blip in an ongoing recovery, I believe it is the beginning of a downward trend of economic stagnation and inflation. The root of this is the Fed’s attempts to inflate [...]

Current Data Reports: What Do They Say?

Here are some quick hits of economic data that have been reported in the past several days. I am convinced that “something is still happening” in that we are seeing continuing signs of improvements in most major categories of economic data (excluding the real estate markets) and we would be foolish to ignore the trend. The meaning [...]