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The Future of Car Buying Will Be Completely Online October 2, 2018 Trending One of the biggest transitions we’re seeing is the move to online buying. Imagine the easy process of buying something on Amazon, except with car buying.
Rising Interest Rates Squeeze American Consumers October 2, 2018 U.S. Economy As interest rates rise, Americans are going to get squeezed. And if you take the American consumer out of the picture, the economy starts to stumble.
Political Turmoil Creates a Tight Squeeze in Crude Oil September 28, 2018 Global Economy, Stocks The Wall Street Journal called me yesterday. A reporter wanted my thoughts on why the oil price “suddenly” started surging. I laughed. I couldn’t help it. You see, with all the other news stories out there about trade wars, tariffs, interest rates and the Kavanaugh hearing, the oil market was kind of forgotten in the […]
The Yield Curve Holds the Secret to the Market’s Health September 27, 2018 Stocks On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point and signaled yet another quarter-point hike before the end of the year. Notably, this is the first time the Fed funds rate — currently at 2.00% to 2.25% — has risen above the rate of inflation. The Fed’s preferred metric for inflation […]
The Emerging Market Crisis Could Topple Oil Demand September 27, 2018 Global Economy It was November 2016. My colleagues and I convened to discuss our biggest and best ideas for the various markets in the years ahead. One of my ideas was “peak demand.” I believed we could approach a point in a few years when global oil demand growth slows down. The world will not stop using […]





