Buzz on Business

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...

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...

The Economics of Price Controls and Subsidies: A Proven Recipe for Higher Costs

William Walsh
If you place a ceiling on the price of a good or service, below the clearing price, you get a shortage of that good or service. A shortage results in ...

Government Subsidies and Inflation: Unpacking the Housing Debate

William Walsh
Consider the market for widgets. Widgets are a necessity, have been in short supply and their price has increased by about 25% in recent years and now...

VP Harris's Housing Proposals: Will They Address the Real Problem?

William Walsh
Vice President Harris announced, late last week a series of proposals designed to combat inflation, particularly inflation in food prices and in housi...

Vice President Harris Targets Grocery Prices: A Closer Look at the Proposed Crackdown 

William Walsh
Vice President Harris released two planks of her economic platform last week designed, she says to fight high prices for consumers. One of these foc...

Inflation, Markets, and Manufacturing and the VP Harris Inflation Plan 

William Walsh
We studiously avoid politics on the Buzz on Business podcast, and we do this for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a divisive topic and we aim to uni...

CPI Comes in as Expected, Market Yawns 

William Walsh
The headline Consumer Price Index numbers came in precisely as expected on Wednesday morning. We’ll get into those numbers in just a minute but the ...

PPI Report Delivers: Stocks Soar, Bond Yields Fall 

William Walsh
The business, financial, economic or stock market story that has dominated our collective consciousness over the last year has not been the labor mark...

Is the Market Taking a Vacation? Inflation Numbers Could Change That

William Walsh
Stocks finished mixed but mostly little changed again on Monday, on volume that was as low as we’ve seen for any non-holiday session in a very long ...

Oil Surges, Gold Shines: Commodity Corner Update 

William Walsh
While this is probably the case with all press conferences, especially those held by political figures, there seem to be three broad categories of que...

Market Mood Swings and Fed Jitters: A Boring Day on Wall Street

William Walsh
Perhaps the best explanation for the rather confusing market action we saw on Monday is the Federal Open Market Committee and its two-day meeting that...
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