Leonard Brecken
2019 An Economy In Search of New Growth
2018 economically started strong as the tax cuts kicked in, but over time the combination of higher interest rates & Quantitative...
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Leonard Brecken
Trade War & Split Congress
Just wanted to take a moment to make a few comments as we head into 2019 post the elections. The GOP losing control of the House in our...
Leonard Brecken
The Economic Road Past & Future
Some of you haven't know me long and others understandably don't read every article/post I write. So I thought it necessary to review...
Leonard Brecken
Value of Foresight
How much do you as a business owner having a person on your team that can add to foresight on the economy to better guide your strategy? ...
Leonard Brecken
Business Resource Deployment & Insight It Lends
In light of a prior discussion on very high corporate debt levels, I wanted to point out that for the first time in 10 years share buy...
Leonard Brecken
Wage Growth & Offsets in Housing
One of the more interesting things revealed this AM is that acceleration in Wage growth (see Chart courtesy of Bloomberg) in 1Q18. Both...
Leonard Brecken
Latest Housing Data Points
Existing Home Sales (National Association of Realtors) for February rebounded growing 3% vs last month vs a drop of 3.2% in prior period...
Leonard Brecken
1Q18 GDP Expectations Get Reduced
One of the things we do for our small business owner clients is conduct risk management by tying what's going on in the economy to...
Leonard Brecken
Real Interest Rates
Most know interest rate remain low, but HOW low maybe not. Despite 5 0.25% interest rate increases from Federal Reserve, the real Fed...
Leonard Brecken
Rising Rates
Treasury rates once again rose today to cycle highs...those in interest rate sensitive business sectors (ie real-estate/construction)...