Economic News, Blog Posts & Updates

Insights From Our CEO: Government Interference Comes With a Price Tag

By: Brian Beaulieu on 05/21/19 14:07

The difference between trends in Cold Rolled Steel and Steel Scrap prices caught our eye. At first, we thought that it would be a consequence of US tariffs. This may be the ...

Challenges and Changes Through 2020 - Part 1

By: Brian Beaulieu on 05/09/19 11:41

Profiting through the ups and downs of the business cycle takes persistence and foresight. The Challenges and Changes June 2019 webinar hosted by Alan and me (Brian) will ...

Insights From Our CEO: Government vs. Free Market

By: Brian Beaulieu on 04/23/19 15:51

There is a worthwhile article by George Will in the April 17 Washington Post. In it, he discusses the federal government's use of tax credits to influence the marketplace ...

Insights From Our CEO: Three Subtle Signs You Should Know

By: Brian Beaulieu on 03/20/19 13:27

There is a reason ITR Economics uses rate-of-change to identify four distinct phases to the business cycle: Each phase requires a particular perspective in conjunction with a ...

Insights From Our CEO: Some Argue the National Debt is No Issue

By: Brian Beaulieu on 02/20/19 10:04

There is a definite RISC to this thinking. There are economists that maintain that the US need not worry about the growing size of our national debt. Some of those economists ...

Insights From Our CEO: The Silver Lining of a Slowdown

By: Brian Beaulieu on 01/30/19 14:00

There are three reasons to see a silver lining in the cyclical slowdown of 2019: Interest rates in general will likely level off/decline The cost of carrying the national debt ...

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