Money, Debts, Gold and the Greenback: When Yeats Met Orwell
In his sixth section of “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, the famous Nobel laureate Irish poet (and pillar of literature) William Butler Yeats writes: “We had fed the heart on fantasies, the heart’s grown brutal from the fare. More substance in our enmities than in...And Now What? Financial Strategy in the Midst of Contrasting Signals
Homer taught us the contrasting qualities of leaders. Achilles was a man of action. Odysseus was a man of words. Both envisioned strategy from different perspectives. One represented strength. The other cunning. Later Machiavelli named those perspectives as force and...Economic Recovery and Market Trajectory
When we look at US jobs data, we get a clear picture that more than 7 out of the 22 million jobs lost during the Covid-19 crisis have been recovered. That fact by itself is a powerful factor in explaining the market’s recovery. However, the surge of infections...Market Developments and Wildcards
There is little doubt that stock market indicators (besides the rally itself until recently) pointed to a recovery that is better than the one expected by the majority of analysts, economists, and market watchers. The equity markets recovered most of the losses that...Sign Up for Our Publications
