Articles/Education
Please choose any of the following articles below that interest you. Each article is listed under the month it was written. Articles written in prior months may still have educational interest.
Loans May Be Easier To Qualify For As Mortgage Rates Rise
Rising mortgage rates since the beginning of the year have slowed mortgage applications down. Should employment conditions improve allowing more ...
Macro Economic Overview
The prospect of resurgent inflation has developed into a growing concern for markets globally. Some believe that current inflationary pressures ...
April 2021 Market Indexes (all values as of 03.31.2021)
Stock Indexes: Dow Jones 32,981 S&P 500 ...
Yields Approach An Inflection Point
Despite a sell off in equity markets towards the end of February, equity indexes managed to post a gain for ...
Taxpayer Scam During Tax Time
The IRS has issued an alert regarding scam phone calls directly to taxpayers nationwide. The calls may be in person ...
Misleading Increase In U.S. Incomes – Government Reporting
Data released by the Commerce Department showed that personal income for Americans rose 10% in January, the largest increase in ...
Food Prices On The Rise – Consumer Inflation
The price of food, from oranges to eggs to meat, increased at an annual rate of 3.9% in 2020 according ...
Where Has The Flu Gone This Season
With the focus on COVID-19 and the daily updates surrounding the case count for the coronavirus, many have forgotten about ...
Labor Market Overveiw
Data from the U.S. Department of Labor covering 38 years show that the average annual percentage of workers earning minimum ...
Fed Continues To Stabilize Interest Rates By Buying Bonds – Fixed Income Overview
The Federal Reserve signaled that it would continue its ambitious program of buying $120 billion of treasury and mortgage bonds ...
How Stimulus Payments Are Treated For Tax Purposes
With over 160 million stimulus payments sent with the first round of pandemic relief efforts, many in receipt of the ...
Macro Economic Overview
Stimulus payments from the second pandemic relief package were received in January and February, stirring economic activity and increasing personal ...
