The market had a tizzy following a 0.1% increase in August CPI. But there are reasons to be optimistic that higher rates, declining demand, falling gas prices and a likely sharp decline in OER will lead to normalizing CPI by the early next year.

This week we will eschew our usual “punny” title and instead settle in for a quick mid-year update as well as an outlook for the second half of the year. The “Megas” Mask the Reality The headline if one focuses on the S&P 500 is that the first half of...

The 96th Academy Awards will be held three weeks from now and in honor of the first ever AI-hosted event – Mario the Chatbot will be hosting utilizing the downloaded comedic routines of Buddy Hackett, Jackie Mason, George Carlin and the scripts of the...

Background A couple of years back, we took a deep dive into the GameStop phenomena. With a new movie hitting theaters – Dumb Money – we thought now would be a good time to revisit this sordid tale. For background, equity markets were sent into a bit of...

In the early 1980s, the U.S. music scene was a bit of a black hole. Disco was dead (or on serious life support), the Eagles and Steely Dan had broken up, most of Lynyrd Skynyrd had died in a plane crash, most of Aerosmith wished it had died in a plane...