The Fed is Now in Jay Powell’s Hands Princeton graduate and Georgetown alumnus Jerome “Jay” Powell was sworn in as the 16th Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve on February 5. Powell was originally nominated to the Fed’s Board of Governors by President Obama...
Will Global Synchronized Growth Continue? “Global synchronized growth” has been a popular buzzword for several months. It means what it says: The world’s largest economies are all growing at the same time. According to the International Monetary Fund, the US, China,...
Trump’s Approval Ratings Are Rising Mainstream media have made a lot of fuss about President Trump’s approval ratings. Admittedly, he hasn’t polled as well as did past presidents during their first years in office. After winning the presidency in a hard-fought...
Are the Trump Tariffs Good for the US Economy? It’s official—President Trump is a protectionist. Despite the fact that many (myself included) expected him to eventually walk back his campaign rhetoric about trade, the president has proven he’s serious about protecting...
Stock Market Sectors to Watch in 2018 It’s been 2018 for nearly a month already, so we can start having serious discussions about which stocks are doing well and which are performing poorly in 2018. Some things we can be confident about—2017 was an exceedingly good...
