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(This information is accurate as of March 13th 2020.) Just when we think the world can’t move any faster, it does. Like many of you, my thoughts and actions around the coronavirus (COVID-19) have changed rapidly [...]
(This information is accurate as of March 13th 2020.) Just when we think the world can’t move any faster, it does. Like many of you, my thoughts and actions around the coronavirus (COVID-19) have changed rapidly [...]
As of this week, the government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history. Granted, it is only a partial shutdown. Previous wholesale shutdowns occurred in January 2018 over immigration (specifically saving DACA-Deferred Action for Childhood [...]
Well, 2018’s third quarter earnings season is history. It was pretty much a repeat of both the first and second quarters. The U.S. economy will stay strong in 2019 and inflation will tick-up above 2% and [...]
It can’t get a whole lot better in the U.S. job market (or can it?). The employment situation continues blast through expectations. The number of Americans losing their jobs and applying for unemployment benefits each week [...]
Well, 2018’s second quarter earnings season is history. It was pretty much a repeat of the first quarter. Once again, if you were to read the headlines, you would be led to believe the end-of-times was [...]
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 4.1% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is up from 2.2% in the first quarter. The 2nd [...]
On April 13, 2018, Kentucky legislation passed a new tax bill into law. Instead of reading the thousands of pages of the new tax law, which I know many of you enjoy dearly, I thought a [...]
Our economic indicators continue to run positive for the first quarter of 2018. Consumer spending, business investments and residential fixed investments rose at a 4.6% annual rate. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a broad measure of the [...]
Well, 2018’s first quarter earnings season is in the process of winding down. The first quarter of 2018 had considerably more noise with respect to earnings because of the new tax law changes. However, earnings are [...]
On March 8, 2018, President Trump imposed a global tariff of 25% on steel imports and 10% on aluminum imports.1 A tariff is a tax on a particular class of imported goods or services that is designed [...]