Macro Overview March 2021

Kent Forsey, CFP® Macro Overview, Oil Prices, Oil Production, Tax Returns, Taxes, Unemployment Rates, World Economies

Every country in the world has handled the recent pandemic in different ways.  One can even say every state in the U.S. has handled it differently.  As a whole, as witnessed by the resurgence and resilience of our economic markets, the U.S. has handled it better than most.  The effect of those efforts, most likely higher taxes and inflation, has …

Macro Overview – June 2019

Kent Forsey, CFP® Mortgage Rates, Tariffs, Trade Policies, Treasury Bonds, Unemployment Rates

The “firehose” of information available nowadays makes it difficult to focus on what topics are really affecting the market.  Here is a good summary of this month’s most important issues. The ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China escalated in May as the U.S. signaled that it had not finalized a deal yet with China.  The lack of a …