by J Thomas Knight | Jun 14, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: June 14, 2021 It’s transitory. It’s not transitory. It’s transitory. It’s not transitory. Media analysts were plucking the inflation daisy petals last week. On Thursday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Consumer Price Index Summary, which showed...
by J Thomas Knight | Jun 7, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: June 07, 2021 Pulling the economy out of the shed. If you’ve ever stored tools or machinery in a shed or garage for an extended period of time, you know they often need some care and repair to function properly. The same appears to be true of the pandemic...
by J Thomas Knight | Jun 1, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: June 01, 2021 Are we at a tipping point? One side effect of the pandemic was a collapse in demand for oil, which led to “the largest revision to the value of the oil industry’s assets in at least a decade,” reported Collin Eaton and Sarah McFarlane of The...
by J Thomas Knight | May 24, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: May 24, 2021 What do markets hate? They hate uncertainty, and recently there has been plenty of it. Some of the questions plaguing economists and pundits include: Why aren’t people returning to work? Americans, like people in other parts of the world, have...
by J Thomas Knight | May 17, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: May 17, 2021 Uncle Inflation is here. Will he overstay his welcome? Ever since the financial crisis, central banks have pursued expansionary monetary policies to encourage reflation and avoid deflation. Well, it’s taken some time, but inflation is finally...
by J Thomas Knight | May 10, 2021 | Commentaries
Commentary: May 10, 2021 Like a gender reveal gone wrong, last week’s employment report delivered an unexpected surprise. Economists estimated 975,000 new jobs would be created in April. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported there were just...
