by pentoport | Nov 23, 2020 | Commentary
The evolution of humankind supposedly goes something like this: From a void and through a series of serendipitous happenstances arose; galaxies, the Earthly Primordial ooze, Bacteria, Monkeys, and eventually homo sapiens (wise man). The evolution of the Fed is...
by pentoport | Oct 19, 2020 | Commentary
The Japanese word for goodbye is Sayonara. But it doesn’t just mean goodbye, it means goodbye forever. Unfortunately, that is what our country is doing to American Capitalism. In the quixotic fantasy world of Keynesian economics, the more money a government borrows...
by pentoport | Sep 28, 2020 | Commentary
September 28, 2020 During the FOMC’s September press conference, Fed Head Jerome Powell managed to communicate three big lies in the space of an hour. The fact that bile spews from the mouth of a central banker isn’t all so surprising. However, having to...
by pentoport | Sep 14, 2020 | Commentary
September 14th 2020 The overvaluation of stocks relative to the economy has placed them in such rarefied space that the market is subject to dramatic and sudden air pockets. Our Inflation Deflation and Economic Cycle model is built to identify both cyclical and...
by pentoport | Sep 8, 2020 | Commentary
September 8th, 2020 The Fed has now officially changed its inflation target from 2% to one that averages above 2% in order to compensate for the years where inflation was below its target. First off, the Fed has a horrific track record with meeting its first and...