The Better Letter

JANUARY 19, 2023

More importantly, perhaps, the past 12 months have marked a generational shift for financial markets as the Fed repeatedly raised interest rates to try to contain the worst inflation in four decades. Foreign equities were not immune to macro headwinds driven by the difficulties in the American markets.

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Trade Brains

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The FSBF offers secured loans to micro-entrepreneurs and self-employed individuals for business purposes, asset creation (home renovation or improvement), or meeting expenses for significant economic events such as marriage, healthcare, and education. The company was incorporated in 2001. Stock P/E (TTM) 34.17 Price to Book Value 7.29

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

So you’ve seen this dynamic where millennials are increasingly taking participation in financial markets and home ownership. In a secular bear market, the average decline is 43%, and the recovery to the high is 48 months. MIAN: Wakeup call and you want to — and money’s a proxy for safety. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Investing Caffeine

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Combined, these negative side effects have the potential of significantly dampening economic growth. Dissecting Stock Performance & Valuations A lot of pundits are pointing to an overheated market, but on a 3-year basis, returns are looking more normalized (+8.2% per year) because of the -20% hit on stocks during 2022.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s been, you know, back in, in 2001, strategists were telling you to put about 70% of your money in stocks. But what we’ve all realized over the last, you know, 20 years since Reg FD in 2001 is that management games, their numbers, and then they beat these made up numbers systematically. You know, a big sci-fi fan.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

So that was in, that was in 2001 early then. And so I’ve noticed that me coming in 2001, think about it, not really a great equity market Barry Ritholtz : Dot.com implosion. And when that light goes on, it’s like, Hey, if everybody is discounting a recession, then the market’s figured it out a long time ago.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. 00:01:34 [Bill Dudley] I, I was there in the, what’s called, called the financial studies section, which is one of the very small places in the Fed that is not macroeconomics driven.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 12, 2023

The contracts were based upon Summers’ macro-economic forecast, which turned out to be wildly wrong. Instead, after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, we entered a period of ultra-low interest rates from which we are only now emerging. Stiglitz insisted , “the inflationary impacts will be at most negligible.”

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Calculated Risk

MAY 22, 2023

Here are a few excerpts from a speech by then Fed Chair Alan Greenspan in April 2001: The paydown of federal debt "Today I want to address a subject in which your group and the Federal Reserve share a keen interest--the paydown of the federal debt and its implications for the economy and financial markets.

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Calculated Risk

MAY 21, 2024

Here are a few excerpts from a speech by then Fed Chair Alan Greenspan in April 2001: The paydown of federal debt "Today I want to address a subject in which your group and the Federal Reserve share a keen interest--the paydown of the federal debt and its implications for the economy and financial markets.

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David Nelson

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Five of the world’s largest oil producers are now part of the economic bloc. Financial markets take in all available information, pricing assets based on hundreds of metrics including earnings, cash flows, dividends, interest, liquidity and of course, risk. Bloomberg Data It isn’t lost on U.S.

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