Retirement Is Here The world over, nations are grappling with aging populations and their impact on the economy. The U.S. is no exception to demographic change. Here’s where we’re at: The entirety of the baby boomer generation could retire within the decade, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. And as boomers exit the…Read more
Reality Check Layoffs can be hard to stomach. And during a time that the economy is booming, they’re even harder to reconcile with what economic data seems to be telling us. Let’s break down this disconnect. Various Fortune 500 companies, including UPS (UPS), eBay (EBAY), and Microsoft (MSFT), have announced mass layoffs recently. But they…Read more
If Not March, When? Welp, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and a hot jobs report poured cold water on the odds of a March policy rate cut, so back to the drawing board we go. Data dependence will be the name of the game for investors trying to predict when the elusive first rate cut…Read more
