by The Gould Asset Management Team Note: This post is an excerpt from Gould Asset Management’s Economic and Market Review for the Second Quarter of 2021. The excerpt is posted here for the benefit of our blog subscribers. Stocks Set New Highs as Vaccination Rates...
by Don Gould In this two-part article, I suggest that if you could only watch one economic indicator, it should be the interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS for short. The TIPS bond pays a return that is indexed to inflation....
by Don Gould The media bombards us daily with economic and financial statistics. Housing starts were up. Jobless claims were down. Consumer confidence is fluctuating. The purchasing managers index was flat. And so on. It’s enough to make your head spin. But there is a...
What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the onset of the Covid pandemic left us staring at an abyss of unknown length and depth. Major parts of the world economy were shuttered, with no end in sight. Stock markets plunged in February and March 2020 and the federal...
by The Gould Asset Management Team Note: This post is an excerpt from Gould Asset Management’s Economic and Market Review for the First Quarter of 2021. The excerpt is posted here for the benefit of our blog subscribers. US Economy Gaining Momentum The US economy...
by Don Gould I remember as a 10-year-old the wonder of my first passbook savings account. It was with a savings & loan (S&L), a bank-like company that focused on home mortgages. The savings account paid a 5.25% interest rate. Every time I visited the S&L...
