Michael Lebowitz's Comment & Analysis
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While headlines of bank failures and bailouts consume the media, few are contemplating the economic and financial aftershocks that will follow.Hockey great Wayne Gretzky famously commented, “I...
The big question facing the Fed is whether they should increase the Fed Funds rate by 25bps or 50bps on March 22, 2023. If Jerome Powell cared for our advice, we would tell him to take the opposite...
As if the 2020s haven’t been strange enough, the United States military recently shot down several UFOs. Equally bizarre as the possibility of aliens, some investment analysts are projecting an...
By owning gold, investors are not necessarily hedging against a government default but ironically betting the Fed will increasingly misuse monetary policy to help the government avoid defaulting. That...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently stated:
“You don’t have a recession when you have the lowest unemployment rate in 53 years.”
Let’s HOPE she is correct.
As logical...
The stock market is betting on a Goldilocks scenario. Jerome Powell doesn’t foresee a recession, instead, he forecasts a soft landing. Apollo is bettering the soft landing scenario with an...
On October 12, 1987, a week before Black Monday, the Wall Street Journal warned of the potential for significant market turmoil. Per the article: The use of portfolio insurance “could snowball...
Investment management can be silly, just like the title of this article. When researching potential investments, we often must choose between math and facts versus irrational human behavior. For...