Jackie Doherty

Dr Ed's Video Webcast 11/27/24

Nov 27, 2024 1 min read paid

With economic growth robust and the stock market at a record high, we’re living the Roaring 2020s now. The economy’s resilience has been remarkable considering the headwinds it has faced. While the outlook under Trump 2.0 involves lots of moving parts, we don’t see the net effects of his policies jeopardizing the Roaring 2020s’ continuation. In this scenario (with our 55% subjective probability), Trump 2.0

Ed Yardeni
Eric Wallerstein
Jackie Doherty

DEEP DIVE: The Kennedy Cure For What Ails Healthcare

Nov 22, 2024 5 min read paid

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert Kennedy Jr., known for challenging the safety of vaccines, to head Health and Human Services (HHS), a huge organization that encompasses an alphabet soup of agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medicare and Medicaid, and the Office of the Surgeon General. Trump reportedly has asked Kennedy—whose presidential campaign

Jackie Doherty
Ed Yardeni

Dr Ed's Video Webcast 10/2/24

Oct 2, 2024 1 min read paid

The permabears have fueled much negativity about the outlooks for the US economy and stock market. Their analyses often don’t hold up to scrutiny. Today, Dr Ed puts the prospects of a recession and a bear market into perspective, historically and in light of recent BEA data releases. The data show the economy to be remarkably resilient, including the goods producing sector. … With a strong economy and no recession

Ed Yardeni
Eric Wallerstein
Jackie Doherty

DEEP DIVE: China Goes For Broke

Sep 27, 2024 5 min read paid

On Tuesday, China announced a raft of policies aimed at boosting the economy and encouraging consumption. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 1.7% to 1.5%. The central bank will also cut the amount of funds that lenders must hold in reserve by 0.5ppt, with more cuts expected later this year. And regulators will recapitalize China’s largest commercial banks;

Ed Yardeni
Jackie Doherty

Dr Ed's Video Webcast 9/4/24

Sep 4, 2024 1 min read paid

Today, Dr. Ed puts the notion of a recession still to come into perspective. Since 1945, the US economy has been in recession 14% of the time. Most of the nine recessions stemmed from the credit-crunching effects of monetary tightening. The most recent tightening round won’t likely trigger a recession despite the “long and variable lag” often noted before the economy reacts to tightening. That’s because this tightening

Ed Yardeni
Eric Wallerstein
Jackie Doherty

DEEP DIVE: Disruptive Technologies Series: Optimus vs Figure 2.0

Aug 30, 2024 3 min read paid

Millions of humanoid robots, those that look and move like humans, could become regular fixtures in factories and homes, bringing down manufacturing costs, eliminating dreary and dangerous work, and launching humanity into an age of abundance, according to the CEOs of Tesla and Figure AI. Both companies have humanoid prototypes that look amazingly lifelike and are trained using artificial intelligence. Here’s a head-to-head comparison of these humanoid robots and

Jackie Doherty
Ed Yardeni

DEEP DIVE: AI Hype Is Hyper

Jul 4, 2024 3 min read paid

Determining when an investment trend has run its course is more of an art than a science. While we love the productivity-enhancing possibilities that artificial intelligence (AI) offers, the AI phenomenon has many of the hallmarks of an inflating bubble. There are big bucks chasing the AI dream. New kings of industry have been crowned. And the hyperbole is flowing. Let’s take a look at some of the warning

Jackie Doherty
Ed Yardeni

DEEP DIVE: Quantum Leaps

Jul 24, 2023 2 min read paid

Artificial Intelligence is just one of several technological innovations that are likely to drive the economy during the Roaring 2020s. The promise of quantum computing—and what humans can accomplish with such vast amounts of computing power—makes scientists giddy. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are leading the race to develop these computers and offer access to them in the cloud. Here are some recent developments in the area: (1)

Ed Yardeni
Jackie Doherty

Market Call: Bullish Channel

Jul 9, 2023 2 min read paid

The current bull market started on October 12 when the S&P 500 bottomed at 3577.03 (chart). It rose 24.6% reaching a high of 4455.59 on July 3. So far it is down only 1.3% through Friday's close. It seems to have found resistance at the upper end of the bull market's channel. If so, then it might fall back down

Jackie Doherty

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