In the U.S., at least, debt is no four-letter word. The $1 trillion level has been attained for credit card debt within the country, with that level not seen since early 2009, when the shockwaves of the financial crisis first were felt. That level of...
Money makes the world go around, but interest rates help determine where the money goes. The past several days have seen ripple effects, well, ripple, as the economy absorbs the recent Fed rate hike, and interest rate watchers (who include, of course, people who own businesses...
IPOs are ready to roll. IPOs are on hiatus. Same subject, two statements, different mindsets, different geographies. The initial public offering is the among the most visible (and, as stakeholders hope, lucrative) exit strategies of management teams and private investors such as private equity or...
April 13, 2017
What to make of the jobs and wages data that, newly in the rearview mirror, are harbingers, or not, of things to come on the employment front? To recap, the March jobs report was glaring as a miss versus consensus, at a 98,000 gain, below the triple-digit tally that had been expected. Yet the jobless […]
April 10, 2017
In the U.S., at least, debt is no four-letter word. The $1 trillion level has been attained for credit card debt within the country, with that level not seen since...
January 10, 2017
Money makes the world go around, but interest rates help determine where the money goes. The past several days have seen ripple effects, well, ripple, as the economy absorbs the...
