When you buy an index fund, you are buying a portfolio with real shares in weights that reflect a miniature version of the underlying market or index (see here and here for more). We also know that if the portfolio has the…
The government is expected to announce an extra £1.3bn in funding for a scheme encouraging the use of electric vehicles (EVs) at next week's Budget. The Electric Car Grant scheme started in July as part of the move to zero emission…
The Trump administration has been targeting state-level AI regulation, with the president declaring in a social media post this week that the industry needs “one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.”…
The global money printer is going crazy. And 2026 will be even crazier!
The chart below shows my proprietary tracker for global money printing for each year since 2017.
Notice: money printing here refers to real economy, inflationary…
This WeekContinuing the trend of the last few weeks, markets were once again focused on the Federal Reserve and artificial intelligence (AI) bubble concerns.After weeks of Fed officials focusing on inflation fears, this week…
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Rwanda, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator),…
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office in January, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican days after a public feud with President Donald Trump.Greene, who became one of Trump's…
has been under attack by the media, insinuating that it makes “circular” alliances with companies that drive their stock prices higher, which then allow those companies to raise capital to buy Nvidia GPUs. Bloomberg reported on Thursday…
Thank you, Director Knotek, for the kind introduction. It is a pleasure to be with you today and to be back in Cleveland and the beautiful Fourth district.1 It is always a…