by Gary Gordon | Jul 30, 2020
On Wednesday (7/29/2020), the Federal Reserve left its overnight lending rate at the zero-bound range of 0.00%-0.25%. The Fed also reasserted its commitment to a wide array of lending and asset purchasing programs via digital money printing. No surprises there. There...
by Gary Gordon | Jul 16, 2020
There are times when one ought to look beneath the covers. For example, if you merely scroll the headlines (7/16/20), you’d read that initial jobless claims fell to a post-pandemic low of 1.3 million. Never mind the persistently high claims above one million. Things...
by Gary Gordon | Jun 29, 2020
Some analysts have resorted to rationalizing the stock bubble with never-before-seen valuation measures. To wit, if one ignores the past 12 months (Trailing P/E), and disregards projections for the next 12 months (Forward P/E), the 24-month forward “guestimate” for...
by Gary Gordon | Jun 15, 2020
Wall Street is unabashedly loony at the moment. Stocks remind me of Clark Griswold’s famous line in National Lampoon’s Vacation, “This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy.” In every previous recession, corporations reduced their leverage to shore up...
by Gary Gordon | Jun 3, 2020
Reasonable estimates suggest that our consumer-based economy will not recover its 2019 GDP glory until 2023. Why stocks trade at 2023 levels in 2020 is bizarre. In truth, households continue to struggle to pay regular bills, with more than one third looking to delay...
by Gary Gordon | May 21, 2020
The notion that the bear market for U.S. stocks has ended is fanciful. For example, is it really the case that financial firms are on the mend? They’re restricting access to credit, increasing reserves for loan losses and showing few signs of resilience beyond a...
