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  • TNB and the Regulatory Dialectic
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Fri December 14, 2018



    Back in the 1980s Professor Edward Kane coined the term regulatory dialectic to capture the dynamics of how regulated financial institutions found innovative ways to circumvent regulations designed to restrict their behavior. For example, banks adopted the one-bank holding company form in the late…
  • January 25th & Gary Shilling
     Author(s): | Wed December 12, 2018



    Gary Shilling is an icon of our finance industry. His monthly missive is priceless. Fred Rossi edits and researches. The work product is extraordinary. We thank them for permission to share the December monthly in full. The trigger for our request was their thorough examination of the climate-…


  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review (Dec 03, 2018 - Dec 07, 2018)
     Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun December 9, 2018



    The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team. These are not revised assessments, and circumstances may have changed in the market from the time of original publication. We also include older commentaries that our editors have…


  • Today's Employment Report
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sat December 8, 2018



    Peter Boockvar summarized a view of this Pearl Harbor Day employment report. We agree with him.


  • Trump Trade War Tariffs & Markets
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri December 7, 2018



    “We’ll not mince words here: The president’s characterization of himself as “Tariff Man” is juvenile and unpresidential. We cannot imagine Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Ford, Mr. Carter, Mr. Reagan, Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Bush or Mr. Obama ever... EVER... making a…


  • January 25th and California Fires
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu December 6, 2018



    The January 25th GIC-USFSM conference on adaptive climate change, Adapting to a Changing Climate: Challenges & Opportunities, to be held at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, includes discussion of fires as well as hurricanes.


  • The November Bond Market Bounce
     Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Wed December 5, 2018



    Here’s our first take after the midterm elections. The last three weeks of November have seen a bounce in the bond market, with intermediate and longer bond yields falling after spending most of 2018 rising.

     


  • Cumberland Advisors Trump Navarro Trade War Consequences: VIDEO
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed December 5, 2018



    David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors comments on the Trump-Navarro Trade War with China and its consequences for markets.

     

     


  • The FOMC: What Next?
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Tue December 4, 2018



    In another week the FOMC will have its final meeting of 2018 and its last with the current mix of policy makers. Already, the discussion has turned to what the Committee will do at that and subsequent meetings: Will it proceed with further 25bp increases in the target range for the federal funds…


  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review (Nov 26, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018)
     Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Mon December 3, 2018



    The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team. These are not revised assessments, and circumstances may have changed in the market from the time of original publication. We also include older commentaries that our editors have determined may be…


 

 

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