Three things we learned last week: 1. China met its 2023 growth target but the data understated challenges. Data released Wednesday showed the world’s second-largest economy grew 5.2% last year, above Beijing’s official target of around 5%. ...

Inflation Expectations Tumble To Lowest Since Jan 2021, As Do Wage And Spending Growth, In Latest NY Fed Survey After a few months of late summer increases in the 1-Year inflation expectation as tracked by ...

Rescue Your Old, Low-Balance 401k Before It’s Kicked To The Curb In 2024 If you have a dusty, half-forgotten 401(k) from a previous job, there’s new pressure to get around to doing something with it ...

The S&P 500’s Best-Performing Stock Over The Past 5 Years Is… (Not NVDA Or TSLA) Despite economic challenges, S&P 500 stocks have demonstrated resilience, delivering significant gains over time. In the graphic below, utilizing data ...

These Are 2023’s Top Global Financial Centers For centuries, global financial centers have served as a linchpin for capital market activity. These hubs share important features, from the infrastructure to facilitate billions of transactions to ...

Why The Pentagon Is A Multi-Trillion Dollar Fraud Authored by Scott Ritter, The US Department of Defense has failed its sixth annual audit in a row, but taxpayer money will keep going down that drain.. ...

Visualizing $97 Trillion Of Global Debt In 2023 Global government debt is projected to hit $97.1 trillion this year, a 40% increase since 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments introduced sweeping financial measures to support the job ...

“Worse Is To Come” – Home Sales Slide Far From Over As Goldman Sees “Sustained Higher Mortgage Rates” Existing home sales plunged back below 4mm SAAR last month for the first time since the foreclosure ...