Real estate is the most widely owned and leveraged asset, so housing downturns have historically led to the most painful economic contractions. This is a huge macro theme with reverberations yet to ...

Dr. Lacy Hunt, Chief Economist at Hoisington Investment Management, analyzes what he calls an economic “interregnum” where ...

Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve held its policy rate steady at 4.25%–4.50%, as Chair Jerome Powell admitted he doesn’t know ...

China’s economy showed signs of damage from the trade war in April, with a drop in export orders and the weakest production at the country’s factories in more than a year. See, Beijing doesn’t want ...

It takes about 30 days for container shipments to go from China to LA and 55 days to New York. So a drop off in shipments in ...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics noted that there were “no winners in trade wars” and pointed to pressure on ...

This brings us to serious questions: how much “long run” do we have financially, and how much capital risk are we comfortable ...

The tactic, in which borrowers pledge their fund stakes as collateral for loans, is mostly used by private equity groups to unearth cash to fund acquisitions or dividends. However, it is being adopted ...