Buzz on Business

Tariffs, Jobs, and the Shrinking Manufacturing Sector: What’s the Real Impact?

William Walsh
While protectionism has long been a part of the American political zeitgeist, it was President Trump who, in 2017, elevated tariffs to a central part ...

Government Manipulation: The Yield Curve's New Normal

William Walsh
The yield curve has disinverted or has righted itself. In normal circumstances, long-term rates are higher than short-term rates. Investors locking th...

A Bad Day for Stocks: Worst Week of 2024

William Walsh
A bad, bad day on Friday put the bow on a bad, bad week for stocks. Again, fears of economic weakness in the face of some disappointing economic and l...

Mixed Market, Mixed Signals: Navigating the September Effect 

William Walsh
Stocks were again mostly lower on Thursday, a bit of a rebound in the large cap tech stocks kept the NASDAQ out of the red for the day.  Fears of ec...

Market Correction Looms: Is NVIDIA the Culprit?

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for September 5th, 2024 Stocks showed more weakness again on Wednesday although the session was not nearly as bad as was Tuesday...

Tariffs Gone Wrong: How Steel and Aluminum Policies Shaped the Auto Sector 

William Walsh
On March 1st, 2018, then President Trump stated, “We’re going to build our steel industry back and we’re going to build our aluminum industry ba...

Breaking Down the September Effect: Do Stocks Stumble in Fall? Why? 

William Walsh
Today is the first trading day of September so perhaps we ought to discuss a phenomenon known as the September Effect.  Of the twelve months of the ...

From Solar Panels to Soybeans: The True Impact of U.S. Tariffs 

William Walsh
Tariffs, and protectionism more broadly, are always promoted as advancing the interests of US companies and US jobs. These are stated as axiomatic, as...

NVIDIA's Earnings Blowout: Market's Mixed Reaction 

William Walsh
Artificial Intelligence giant NVIDIA reported 2nd Quarter financial results after the bell on Wednesday and the numbers exceeded expectations along ev...

Why Trump’s Solar Tariffs Failed: An Economic Analysis

William Walsh
In 2018, the Trump Administration imposed a 30% tariff regime on solar panels imported into the United States from China. The rationale was to support...

Why Tariffs and Price Controls Are Economic Pitfalls: A Financial Animal's Perspective

William Walsh
Last week, we spent some time on this podcast looking at and disagreeing with Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic plan, specifically, her plan to...

The Fed's Tightrope: Why Lower Rates Might Not Boost Asset Prices

William Walsh
Like Darth Vader finally blurting out that he was indeed the baby daddy, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, in his speech to the Jackson Ho...
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