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Fed Bond Purchases Ineffective?
Fed hints bond tapering to begin soon at Jackson Hole Economic Symposium Economic data mixed this week as Supreme Court nixes Eviction...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 27, 20213 min read
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Fed Ready To Shift?
The Fed minutes released last week from July's meeting point to a majority of Fed governors that believe it's near time to begin tapering...
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Aug 23, 20212 min read
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Back to Push and Pull
Back in March, I wrote about how the market was acting a bit schizophrenic. Five months later, we're back to a similar situation in...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 20, 20214 min read
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Higher Inflation, Sooner Fed Action?
Both Consumer Prices and Producer Prices rose last week as there is no clear trend that inflation is "transitory." In fact, futures...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 16, 20212 min read
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Carpe Inflation
In the classic film "Dead Poets Society," new professor and returning alumnus John Keating urges his students to mind the Latin words...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 13, 20215 min read
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All Good Things Must Come To An End
The title of this week's Market Recap is a quote attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th Century English poet and author. The "good"...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 9, 20212 min read
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It's Like Groundhog Day, Except We're In August
I feel like Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day" as we sit here a year and a half removed from the start of the pandemic and we don't...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 6, 20215 min read
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Jobs and COVID
Investors who fear that the Fed will start tapering bond purchases sooner than expected has those fears eased last week with the Fed's...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Aug 2, 20212 min read
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Help, I'm Stepping Into the Twilight Zone
I doubt either Rod Sterling or Gene Roddenberry had 2021 in mind when they envisioned their respective hits - "The Twilight Zone" and...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 30, 20216 min read
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What's Up With Inflation?
Introduction Perhaps one of the most memorable periods of higher inflation are the years between 1975 and 1980, when the Consumer Price...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 27, 20218 min read
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All Eyes on the Fed This Week
The Fed will meet at its normally-scheduled Open Market Committee meeting Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Chairman Powell's press...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 26, 20213 min read
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Return to the COVID Economy? No, Just Kidding
Markets sold off last Friday and continued the trend on Monday of this week as fears arose over a decline in global growth due to...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 23, 20214 min read
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Recovery Still On Track
Despite the latest increase in COVID cases and the constant touting of said increase by the media, the economic recovery is still on...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 19, 20212 min read
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Central Bank Woes
After flooding the market with liquidity on top of massive stimulus spending by governments around the world, Central Banks find...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 16, 20213 min read
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Positive 2nd Half Expectations
In honor of Summer and relaxation, we need to celebrate the good things in life. If you pick up a newspaper or watch the news, life as...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 12, 20212 min read
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Worries over Fed and COVID
After the minutes from last month's Fed meeting were released on Wednesday, the markets pulled back on the possibility of Tapering bond...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 9, 20214 min read
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Second Half of 2021
Many of the market themes that we formulated at the beginning of the year have played out close to what we expected. As a brief recap,...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 6, 20212 min read
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God Bless the U.S.A.
If you're an American, then Lee Greenwood's hit song probably stirs some strong emotions when you hear it - especially this time of year....

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jul 2, 20213 min read
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The Birth of An Extraordinary Nation
As we head into the July 4th holiday, we are reminded of how exceptional this nation is in the world. After dealing with a global...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jun 28, 20212 min read
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
I highly doubt the Rolling Stones had monetary policy in mind when they wrote their hit song, but the title is appropriate when it comes...

Scott Poore, AIF, AWMA, APMA
Jun 25, 20214 min read
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