Does Powell’s End (goals) Justify The Means?
By Bryce Johnson, Principal, Risemint Capital Advisors The FOMC minutes yesterday revealed that Powell may be benefiting from an old...
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Josh Rigden
- Apr 10
- 9 min
Market Commentary: 1st Quarter 2023
Markets Have Good First Quarter Global equity markets had a pretty good first quarter – especially the tech names. And interestingly, in...
Bryce Johnson
- Dec 15, 2022
- 2 min
Ever-Moving Goal Post: Has J. Powell Embraced The Market’s Lack of Confidence in the FOMC?
By Bryce Johnson Yesterday’s volatile market reaction was nothing new from what we have seen following practically every FOMC...
Bryce Johnson
- Aug 16, 2022
- 2 min
From "Hurricane" To Now Just Mere "Storm Clouds": Wall St Opinions Are As Dynamic As The Markets
The leading bankers on Wall Street sounded the alarm. Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase described a pending hurricane that was set to strike...
Bryce Johnson
- Jan 18, 2022
- 2 min
Equities Tantrum At (long anticipated) Interest Rate Paradigm (actually) Shift(ing)?
For almost a year, the capital markets have been expecting a scaling-back of the Fed’s open market purchases of treasury bonds and...
Josh Rigden
- Apr 13, 2021
- 8 min
Market Commentary – First Quarter 2021
Markets Reach New Highs in Q12021 Global equity markets had a choppy first quarter, but when the final Wall Street-bell tolled on March...
Bryce Johnson
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
When Rates Begin To Rise, Active Management Is Paramount
Passive investing is perhaps the best driver of value when it comes to growing your money over time. Buy a low cost index fund and the...
Bryce Johnson
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
"GameStop" Instills Confidence in the Proper Functioning Of Public Markets. Not the Other Way Around
By now, you, your parents, your children and your neighbors all know what "shorting" a stock is. I've lost count of how many iterations...
Bryce Johnson
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Political Pendulum Swings, but the Economy Does Its Own Thing
Kenneth G. Pringle Barrons.com January 20, 2021 An important reminder that media headlines and political catch phrase messaging do not,...
Josh Rigden
- Dec 4, 2020
- 2 min
The DJIA Hit 30,000 For The First Time In History
Should retirees worry that a stock market correction is imminent? After a long stretch of uncertainty throughout 2020, many retirees are...
Josh Rigden
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
Overall Retail Sales Holding Strong, While Restaurants And Department Stores Continue To Struggle
Overall Retail Sales Jump The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services Survey to provide...
Bryce Johnson
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Growth Over Value Continues
What's been a decade-long trend, its happening in 2020 is somewhat unique The growth sector is rounding out ten years of massively...
Bryce Johnson
- Jul 7, 2020
- 2 min
A Surging Rally Not Supported By Institutional Buying
Excerpts taken from Dion Rabouin from Axios.com 5/23/20 Stan Druckenmiller, the former chief strategist for George Soros, called the...
Bryce Johnson
- Apr 10, 2020
- 2 min
Perspective Within the Chaos: Unemployment, Government Intervention, and Market Technicals
Unemployment claims Another 6,600,000 filed for unemployment benefits on April 8th, which brings the total claims in the past three weeks...
Bryce Johnson
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
Private Equity Is Getting Crowded
A primary motivation of investors who allocate into private equity is the hope that their capital generates a return greater than the...
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