Let’s see. What country am I in today? Oh yeah: the United States. Well, California, anyway, which is sort of an outlying territory these days. So let’s do something America-centric with a chart to ...

About the author: Marc Chandler is chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex, a division of First Financial Bank. Economists have for years delivered epitaphs of the Great Moderation, the ...

The great moderation – a theory that become quite popular once the big financial party of this decade really got going after 2004 (see the New York Times graphic on LBOs) – had two components. One: ...

The Great Moderation offered stability, but today's "Temperamental Era" brings economic and inflation uncertainty. Nearshoring, geopolitical tensions, and inflation volatility demand renewed investor ...

There has been a seismic, fundamental shift in the economic and markets regime that has dominated the U.S. – and much of the globe – for the past three decades. Or so says BlackRock, the world’s ...

5:12 am, April 18, 1906. A foreshock rocked the San Francisco Bay area, followed 20 seconds later by one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history. The quake, which lasted a full minute, was ...

In recent decades, as foreign trade and investment have been rising as a share of the U.S. economy, recessions have actually become milder and less frequent (see chart above, click to enlarge). The ...