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Last Thursday the S&P 500 finished the day down 4.8%. Then on Friday it declined another 6%. That’s a loss of more than 10% in just…

Posted April 7, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Schafer Cullen: See here for more information on Schafer Cullens…

The S&P 500 is approaching bear market territory and it happened in a hurry: This drawdown profile doesn’t even look real. It looks like an intern…

Twelve Steps to Self-Forgiveness You really can set anything down. You CAN forgive yourself. Trump Tariffs and the Flight to Quality Tariffs on one small local…

Widespread tariffs are a bad idea. How do I know this? History shows they don’t work. Let’s look back. JP Morgan’s Michael Cembalest wrote about President…

A reader asks: There has been a clear distinction in recent years in sentiment data where party/political leaning sentiment goes in the opposite direction depending on…

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Here’s a crazy stat from Bloomberg: Half of American households account for 97.5% of the wealth in this country. This is the breakdown from Federal Reserve…

Posted March 31, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by VanEck: See here for more information on VanEcks CLO ETF…

I get a lot of emails from young people in the finance world asking for career advice. Career advice is hard. Your path is often dictated…