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Navigating the Markets & Economy Through the PEST Lens

August 12, 2025 01:50 PM By alex.locker - Comment(s)
Navigating the Markets & Economy Through the PEST Lens

1. Political

  • Escalating Tariff Tensions & Trade Policy Shockwaves

    The U.S. has impose...

Crazy Ivan!

March 18, 2025 02:24 PM By alex.locker - Comment(s)

In a post dated 4/5/24 titled "The Stubborn Soft Landing", I wrote the following: "A soft landing is - unofficially - when monetary policy makers both slow the pace of economic growth and reduce inflation without causing a recession.  So far, that appears to be the most likely sc...

2025 Federal Reserve Outlook

January 24, 2025 01:41 PM By alex.locker - Comment(s)
2025 Federal Reserve Outlook

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) consists of 12 members:  the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating ba...

A Lot Can Change in Two Months

August 26, 2024 06:00 AM By alex.locker - Comment(s)
A Lot Can Change in Two Months
The outlook for the markets & economy are quite different in August than they were in June.

The Stubborn Soft Landing

April 05, 2024 01:34 PM By alex.locker - Comment(s)
The Stubborn Soft Landing
Are we actually on track for a "soft landing"?
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