A Chat with Danielle DiMartino Booth HAI has a rare treat for readers this week. Danielle DiMartino Booth may be the closest thing to a rock star the “dismal [...]

Still Dancing In July of 2007, Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince laid out his strategy for running Citigroup amid a growing recognition of risks on the eve of what [...]

Inflection Point This week, HAI wishes a happy 4th of July to all, and a very happy birthday to the land of the free and the home of the brave! While this [...]

A New Era Writing of the period just before the Great Depression’s guillotine dropped in the late 1920s, Dr. Benjamin Anderson, in his tour de force [...]

An Unnerving Feeling On Friday, Goldman Sachs’ head of execution services, Bobby Molavi, summed up the current market zeitgeist nicely. As Molavi put it, [...]

A New Paradigm It’s been an eventful stretch of late for both markets and the economy. Last Friday we had a seemingly blowout May nonfarm payrolls report. [...]

Some Time Off for Family This week HAI is just prices. This author is receiving a most welcome visit from family, and time is tight. HAI will be back next [...]

It Hasn’t Hit Yet Two weeks ago, HAI referenced comments from Western financial behemoth BlackRock managing Director Rick Rieder as evidence that the [...]

Loyalty to Country With our MWM quarterly client call yesterday and this author’s in-laws visiting for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, this HAI will [...]

The Debt’s Too Darn Big Strength in precious metals was notable this week. Gold is retesting recent highs, silver broke out to new post-Covid highs, and the [...]

Do the Right Thing This week, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva observed a critical change in the global fiscal tide. [...]

Stagflationary Winds Last week, HAI noted this author’s suspicion that inflation will not be the dominant driver of Fed policy. Instead, signs of a weakening [...]

We Are In It Now Since inflation data began picking up again in the first three months of the year, the drumbeat of higher-for-longer interest rate policy has [...]

In the Foothills of Its Everest Outside of a wild week of Middle East geopolitics and volatile market price action, this week was relatively quiet on Wall [...]

Under Pressure Last week HAI featured a very notable comment from economist Mohamad El-Erian. This week let’s start there. Following the latest FOMC [...]