Category: Economy

  • What is up with inflation?

    12-month change in Consumer Price Index

    Our insurance agent emailed us last month to explain why our homeowner premium jumped 20% from a year ago.

  • 2023 Investment Outlook Seminar

    The first in-person Investment Outlook Seminar in four years is now a Money Talk Video, featuring Bob Landaas, Kyle Tetting and Dave Sandstrom. […]

  • Retirement spending to the rescue?

    Besides showing the strongest inclination among age groups to increase spending, seniors also tend to be wealthier. […]

  • Implementing data, cultivating outlook

    By Kyle Tetting The outlook is opportunistic, to be sure, but some of the most rewarding periods for investors have come alongside the need for meaningful problem solving. […]

  • Halfway through 2023, outlook improving

    By Kyle Tetting Reasonable caution is always appropriate, but investors too focused on the risks missed out on a lot across the first six months of 2023. […]

  • No recession yet, the White House says

    By Joel Dresang Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP do not a recession make. Back-to-back declines in gross domestic product is a common quick-and-dirty description of a recession. Technically, it’s much more complicated. […]

  • Recession’s not over till the NBER sings

    Economists involved in business cycle information are painstaking when pronouncing the end of a recession. Over the past five downturns, they averaged 15 months between when the recession was over and when they said so. On three of those occasions — 1980, 1991 and 2001, the lag between the turning point and the bureau’s declaration…

  • Economy keeps counting on consumers

    Much of the optimism for the U.S. economy is the health of consumers. […]