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2025 has been a year filled with what one could charitably describe as “worry”. Around Trump’s inauguration, he re-emphasized his America First agenda with a series of policy announcements centered around protectionist trade and economic policies. His trade war has blanketed most of the United States’ biggest global
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The markets were dealt a bit of a surprise this week when the U.S. Court of International Trade blocked President Trump from imposing his sweeping reciprocal tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act only for an appeals court to reverse the ruling 24 hours later. What that
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Japan is in trouble. There’s just no nice way to put it. For years, the Bank of Japan flooded the system with liquidity in hopes of ramping up consumer demand and stimulating growth. As long as inflation remained under control, they could justify continuing down the path and throwing
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With President Trump’s abrupt about-face on tariff policy in China, it looks like both consumers and investors can breathe a sigh of relief. The idea of 145% tariffs on one of the world’s largest trade partners was always going to be unsustainable without sending the U.S.
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This week, the U.S. and the U.K. announced an “historic” trade deal that will dial back tariff rates for both nations while simultaneously easing trade conditions for British car exports and the agriculture market for both countries. We’ve been promised a huge number of trade deals for
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Three critical economic reports were released this past week - the first read on Q1 GDP, the first read on quarterly core PCE prices and the ADP employment report (with the more important non-farm payroll numbers coming on Friday). As I’ve mentioned before, we’re approaching a very critical
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Here’s How 3 Asset Classes Might Move Now
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(And Why Gold Could Be Its Biggest Victim)
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The reverse yen carry trade, part 2
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Happy Liberation Day! For most investors, the only thing they’re getting liberated from is the money in their portfolios. If Trump’s tariffs had ended up being roughly what the market expected, I think we could have very well seen a neutral or even a positive reaction from risk
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As it stands right now, the Fed Funds futures market is pricing in roughly three rate cuts by the end of the year, starting with the first cut in June. That’s a more dovish stance than we saw just a month ago when the market was leaning towards just
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It’s Just Slower & More Controlled This Time