WS Wealth Management, LLC

Both the Markit and the ISM Manufacturing Survey came in higher than expected in the January 2020 report. That is viewed as a...

As global stock markets selloff in the face of uncertainty of a possible Coronavirus pandemic, some perspective is needed. Uncertainty...

Our expectations for 2020 economic activity are not markedly changed from 2019. In general, we expect growth of about 2.5% and interest...

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009 virtually every sector of the US economy has recovered and exceeded prior levels in...

"You can't sell from an empty wagon," said my boss Terry Doyle as we were discussing our holdings of US Agency bonds on the trading desk....

It's always fun to look at market returns as subsets of recurring events and see if we can gauge any significance in expected future...

There are numerous indicators we track to gauge economic and business cycle strength which we believe will help to determine the...

US Government Debt is increasing at a pace greater than $1T annually as the tax cuts have decreased tax receipts at a greater pace than...

The Employment Situation Report (also called the Non-Farm Payroll Report) gives a monthly snapshot of the employment (and unemployment )...

Economic activity in the U.S. grew at an annualized rate of 1.9% in Q3, down very slightly from 2% in Q2, but better than economists'...

And what does it mean? We've often discussed household debt as an indicator of economic growth. The more debt a household has, the less...

There are many ways to measure economic strength and weakness. One we look at quarterly is the level of credit applied for, accepted,...

Income drives sales, sales drives inventories, and all drive GDP. There has been some concern that the slowdown in wholesale inventories...

There are many different data sets from which to view and analyze the employment picture in the US. The Non-Farm Payroll report (NFP) is...

In 2008 the Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) began a program of Quantitative Easing in conjunction with deep cuts in the Federal Reserve...

US Consumer spending is the biggest single spending factor accounting for about 65% of total US GDP while business and government roughly...

Given the hyperventilating over trade tariffs and the expected increase in inflation that is yet to come, how 'vast' has been the actual...

Fox News: "China announces it seeks 'calm' end to trade war, as markets tank and currency hits 11-year flatline"...

Since the end of the 'Great Recession' in 2009, US stock markets have outperformed those of the rest of the developed world and the...

The current Fed Funds Target Rate is currently 2.25% (actually it’s a range from 2.00-2.25% but the high end of the range rate is always...