By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist July 6, 2020 - Every soul-shaking event of the last twenty years – 9-11, the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the coronavirus pandemic – has been accompanied by a period of introspection regarding truly
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Plain Speaking Powell
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist June 16, 2020 - At a recent Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Associates Meeting, the distinguished Stanford economics professor and monetarist John Taylor described Fed Chairman Jerome Powell as
Consumer Confidence
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist June 11, 2020 - Consumer spending is 70% of the US economy, as measured by US GDP, and the frequent repetition of this mantra by popular financial media, academics and Wall Street analysts alike is testimony
A Note About Employment and Unemployment
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist June 10, 2020 - The most recent report on US labor market conditions by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released on June 5 and reporting on employment and unemployment in May 2020, has provoked a torrent
CARES Act Webinar April 14, 2020
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A New Economy for a New Expansion
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist Deliberately Provocative Thoughts on the Inevitable Future April 15, 2020 - Humans are an amazing species. Perhaps it goes back to the ancient motivation to hunt for the next mastodon – while
Surveying the Battleground
By Jeanette Garretty, Chief Economist March 3, 2020 - The Federal Reserve decision to cut the Fed Funds Rate by 50 bps brings a number of economic and financial market forces into sharper focus. Reason dictates that the Fed is proactively
Deficit Attention Disorder Redux
February 13, 2020 – The US Treasury Department has released federal budget deficit, receipts and outlays numbers for the first four months of the government’s fiscal year (October 2019 through January 2020) and they certainly deserve attention.
2020 Economic Forecast
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Benefitting from a Family Office without Opening One
By Michael Tierney, January 22, 2020 Our goal at Robertson Stephens is to build long-term wealth through institutional-quality alpha generating investments, digital efficiency, and visionary life plans—all within a fiduciary relationship defined by
