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First Quarter 2022 Market Commentary – The Fed Duels Inflation

Leave a Comment / Market Commentary / Christopher Diodato, CFA, CMT, CFP

2021 was the “COVID recovery” year for the economy, with industrial production, corporate profits, and gross domestic product all vaulting to new highs from their depressed 2020 levels. The unemployment rate, which peaked at 14.7% in April of 2020, dropped to 3.9% by the end of 2021. Trillions of dollars of government stimulus helped buffer the

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Is the Housing Boom a Bubble?

The real estate market is hot! Since last summer, the S&P/Case-Shiller National Home Price Index has indicated the average home is increasing by 0.99%/month, more than three times the historical average. Anecdotally, home buyers are frustrated as bidding wars and offering above asking prices is the new norm. Meanwhile, some pundits have invoked the idea