Weekly Economic Commentary

WEEK OF AUGUST 22, 2025

The weekly commentary will not be published over the Labor Day weekend. The next issue will be published on September 5. All eyes were on the annual Jackson Hole symposium this week, hoping to see if Fed Chair Jerome Powell would provide any clue as to when, or whether, a rate cut would be coming….
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Previous Weeks

WEEK OF MAY 3, 2024

April’s employment report is about as good as it gets. Moderating job growth, looser labor market conditions and slower wage gains, just what the Fed doctor ordered to tame inflation…
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WEEK OF APRIL 19, 2024

The notable baseball philosopher, Yogi Berra, purportedly said that’s making predictions is hard “especially about the future”. Federal Reserve officials, as well as investors, are learning that lesson the hard…
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WEEK OF APRIL 5, 2024

They did it again. In what’s become a distressingly common occurrence, the Labor Departmentrevealed another upside surprise on the jobs front, revealing that the economy created an eyeopening 303 thousand…
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